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Treat Me Like A Human, Dammit! The Importance of Behavioural Psychology on Digital Strategy 21 November 2014

The importance of behavioural psychology on digital strategy

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New technologies, platforms and social contexts continue to disrupt business decision making. On behalf of brands and other clients the marketing and advertising industry continually seeks to exploit the potential of new targeting and personalisation technologies. Digital marcomms experts are increasingly turning to behavioural sciences to understand and influence consumer behaviour.

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Treat Me Like A Human, Dammit!

The Importance of Behavioural Psychology on Digital Strategy

21 November 2014

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Behavioural what now?

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Have I heard that somewhere before?

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Urgency Comfort

Bargain

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Extra Urgency!

Extra Comfort!

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But these are tactics not strategies

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User-Centric Design

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Never the first

First MP3 Player 1998 iPod 2001

First smartphone 1999 iPhone 2007

First tablet Computer 1996 iPad 2010

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Just the best to use

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Apple understand human beings

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Queuing for an iPad

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Hang on, understanding humans is a

novel idea?

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Unfortunately, yes

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Unfortunately, yes

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Unfortunately, yes

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Behavioural Psychology

Gives us a way to understand humans

Helps us to understand …

Who they are.

Why they behave in the way that they do.

How better to appeal to them.

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Expect irrational behaviour.

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Fine, but how do we create a strategy

for the irrational?

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Enough with the research!

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You’re going to trust what people say?Ambiguity effect

Anchoring orfocalism

Attentional bias

Availability heuristic

Availability cascade

Backfire effect

Bandwagon effect

Base rate fallacy or base rate neglect

Belief bias

Bias blind spot

Cheerleader effect

Choice-supportive bias

Clustering illusion

Confirmation bias

Congruence bias

Conjunction fallacy

Conservatism orregressive bias

Conservatism (Bayesian)

Contrast effect

Curse of knowledge

Decoy effect

Denomination effect

Distinction bias

Duration neglect

Empathy gap

Endowment effect

Essentialism

Exaggerated expectation

Experimenter'sor expectation bias

Focusing effect

Forer effect orBarnum effect

Framing effect

Frequency illusion

Functional fixedness

Gambler's fallacy

Hard–easy effect

Hindsight bias

Hostile media effect

Hot-hand fallacy

Hyperbolic discounting

Identifiable victim effect

IKEA effect

Illusion of control

Illusion of validity

Illusory correlation

Impact bias

Information bias

Insensitivity to sample size

Irrational escalation

Less-is-better effect

Loss aversion

Mere exposure effect

Money illusion

Moral credential effect

Negativity effect

Negativity bias

Neglect of probability

Normalcy bias

Not invented here

Observation selection bias

Observer-expectancy effect

Omission bias

Optimism bias

Ostrich effect

Outcome bias

Overconfidence effect

Pareidolia

Pessimism bias

Planning fallacy

Post-purchase rationalization

Pro-innovation bias

Pseudocertainty effect

Reactance

Reactive devaluation

Recency illusion

Restraint bias

Rhyme as reason effect

Risk compensation / Peltzman effect

Selective perception

Semmelweis reflex

Social comparison bias

Social desirability bias

Status quo bias

Stereotyping

Subadditivity effect

Subjective validation

Survivorship bias

Time-saving bias

Unit bias

Well travelled road effect

Zero-risk bias

Zero-sum heuristic

Actor–observer bias

Defensive attribution hypothesis

Dunning–Kruger effect

Egocentric bias

Extrinsic incentives bias

False consensus effect

Forer effect(aka Barnum effect)

Fundamental attribution error

Group attribution error

Halo effect

Illusion of asymmetric insight

Illusion of external agency

Illusion of transparency

Illusory superiority

Ingroup bias

Just-world hypothesis

Moral luck

Naïve cynicism

Naïve realism

Outgroup homogeneity bias

Projection bias

Self-serving bias

Shared information bias

System justification

Trait ascription bias

Ultimate attribution error

Worse-than-average effect

Bizarreness effect

Choice-supportive bias

Change bias

Childhood amnesia

Conservatism or Regressive bias

Consistency bias

Context effect

Cross-race effect

Cryptomnesia

Egocentric bias

Fading affect bias

False memory

Generation effect(Self-generation effect)

Google effect

Hindsight bias

Humor effect

Illusion of truth effect

Illusory correlation

Lag effect

Leveling and Sharpening

Levels-of-processing effect

List-length effect

Misinformation effect

Modality effect

Mood-congruent memory bias

Next-in-line effect

Part-list cueing effect

Peak–end rule

Persistence

Picture superiority effect

Positivity effect

Primacy effectt,

Recency effect & Serial position effect

Processing difficulty effect

Reminiscence bump

Rosy retrospection

Self-relevance effect

Source confusion

Spacing effect

Spotlight effect

Stereotypical bias

Suffix effect

Suggestibility

Telescoping effect

Testing effect

Tip of the tonguephenomenon

Verbatim effect

Von Restorff effect

Zeigarnik effect

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“If I had asked people what they

wanted, they would have said …

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Review assumptions

Oh look a nice, rational funnel.

I start at the top and consider all the products.

I carefully remove products as we go.

I never add products back in.

And eventually I buy something.

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Deliver rational and emotional reasons

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Test, learn, do it again!

Test

Learn

Improve

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Don’t trust people, trust actions

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We can change things

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Digital strategy then …

Accept people are irrational.

Give them emotional and rational reasons to purchase.

Observe don’t ask directly.

Test, learn, improve.

Don’t fear change – nothing is ever complete!

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Thank you.

@adamsefton

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