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  2. Brendan Maher (psychologist) - Wikipedia

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    Brendan Arnold Maher (31 October 1924 [1] – 17 March 2009) was a psychology professor at Harvard University who pioneered the scientific study of psychology in the laboratory, and laid the groundwork for the study of psychology and its relationship to genetics. [2] Maher was most interested in human psychopathology, especially schizophrenia.

  3. McGuire's Motivations - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive Preservation Motives a. Need for Consistency (active, internal) b. Need for Attribution (active, external) c. Need to categorize (passive, internal) d. Need for objectification (passive, external)

  4. Ernest Dichter - Wikipedia

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    An oft-cited example of Dichter's studies is an understanding of why people use cigarette lighters. The conscious explanation is that lighters are used to light cigarettes, but at a deeper, unconscious level people use lighters because it gives them mastery and power. [18] "The capacity to summon fire inevitably gives every human being, child ...

  5. Consumer behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organisations and all activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services.It encompasses how the consumer's emotions, attitudes, and preferences affect buying behaviour.

  6. Audio therapy - Wikipedia

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    Audio therapy is the clinical use of recorded sound, music, or spoken words, or a combination thereof, recorded on a physical medium such as a compact disc (CD), or a digital file, including those formatted as MP3, which patients or participants play on a suitable device, and to which they listen with intent to experience a subsequent beneficial physiological, psychological, or social effect.

  7. Consumer neuroscience - Wikipedia

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    Consumer research has existed for more than a century and has been well established as a combination of sociology, psychology, and anthropology, and popular topics in the field revolve around consumer decision-making, advertising, and branding. For decades, however, consumer researchers had never been able to directly record the internal mental ...

  8. Audio coding format - Wikipedia

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    A lossless audio coding format reduces the total data needed to represent a sound but can be de-coded to its original, uncompressed form. A lossy audio coding format additionally reduces the bit resolution of the sound on top of compression, which results in far less data at the cost of irretrievably lost information.

  9. Consumer - Wikipedia

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    A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, or use purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs, who is not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities. The term most commonly refers to a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.