Matt Johnson & Prince Ghuman on Mid-Liminal Marketing and the Ethics of Applied Neuroscience

Matt Johnson, PhD and Prince Ghuman are the authors of “Blindsight: the mostly hidden ways marketing shapes our brains.” We caught up with them to discuss the book, basketball, ethics, and old school hip hop.

Matt is a professor at Hult International Business School and he likes to explore the intersections of neuroscience, psychology, and consumerism in his graduate and undergraduate classes.

Prince is also at Hult International Business School where he teaches marketing. He is also the founder of PopNeuro, a firm that helps companies to ethically apply neuroscience to their marketing strategies.

In our conversation, Matt and Prince introduced us to a new term in neuromarketing they call mid liminal. Not subliminal, but mid liminal. We also talked about the natural partnership between neuroscience and marketing and we covered one of our favorite linguistic games – the Kiki and Bouba studies.

Most importantly, we discussed their views on the ethical application of neuromarketing.

We also want to note that Prince and Matt are hosting the World’s First Neuromarketing Certification Bootcamp. It will be held live on December 4th through the 6th of 2020. They will be condensing years of neuroscience and marketing insights into a three-day Bootcamp with the intent of outfitting professionals with the latest tools in neuromarketing. Best yet for those looking to build credibility at work: successfully completing the Bootcamp earns you a certification.

They also shared a link to the Bootcamp along with a special code (GROOVES) to save $500 off of the registration fee. Use the link in the notes below and type in GROOVES to receive your discount. Of course, this fantastic discount code is ONLY available to listeners of Behavioral Grooves. We encourage you to check it out as we think these guys have a lot to share.

Thanks for listening and we hope you go out and find your groove this week.

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Links

Matt Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjohnsonisme/

Prince Ghuman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/princeghuman/

“Blindsight”: getbook.at/blindsight

Neuromarketing Certification Course: https://www.popneuro.com/neuromarketing-bootcamp

Special Discount Code: GROOVES

Master Classes: https://www.popneuro.com

Nick Van Exel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Van_Exel

Steph Curry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Curry

Klay Thompson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klay_Thompson

Wine Shop Study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232593421_The_Influence_of_In-Store_Music_on_Wine_Selections

Kiki and Bouba Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Phillip Kotler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kotler

OCEAN/BIG 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

Cass Sunstein on Ethics: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Sunstein_809.pdf

Charlotte Blank on Don’t Be Creepy episode 9: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/dont-be-creepy-data-transparency-with-charlotte-blank/

Porsche: https://www.porsche.com/usa/

Breitling: https://www.breitling.com/us-en/

Purple: https://purple.com/

Serta: https://www.serta.com/

IKEA: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/

Sleep Number Bed: https://www.sleepnumber.com/

Onomatopoeia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQCgjo1QTU

Kurt Nelson, PhD: kurt@lanterngroup.com

Tim Houlihan: tim@behavioralchemy.com

Musical Links

“Old Town Road” remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ysFgElQtjI

Grandmaster Flash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4

Busy Bee Starski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_Bee_Starski

Tribe Called Quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tribe_Called_Quest

Van Morrison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison

The Beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvkICbTZIQ

Al Green “Let’s Stay Together”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu6tcbMOu0

Beatnick Music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik

Flora Cash: https://www.floracash.com/

Sea Wolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF3sOmW6jCA

Iron & Wine: http://ironandwine.com/

Angus & Julia Stone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7MqreuccI

Ministry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fx_IkuTRp0

Debussy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ip64cG7gK4

Hank Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yCQraOX4Bw

The Romantics “What I Like About You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqnw5IfbZOU