Welcome to this special mini episode of Behavioral Economics in Marketing as we revisit one of the most insightful themes from Season 2 — management through the lens of behavioral economics. In this teaser, we spotlight the foundational episode Managing Cognitive Dissonance , where we explored how internal conflict affects team performance, leadership effectiveness, and company culture. Then we preview a new companion episode that takes that conversation even further — diving into the concept of...
Jul 21, 2025•4 min•Season 10Ep. 206
What if the key to better marketing isn’t just what you say — but how you make people feel? In this episode of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast, we explore how emotional segmentation and framing can help you better understand your audience and create messaging that resonates. Discover the psychology behind how customers process information and why aligning your message with emotional motivations leads to more powerful, personalized campaigns. We’ll unpack a foundational behavioral b...
Jul 17, 2025•14 min•Season 10Ep. 223
Explore how subtle shifts in presentation shape customer perceptions and drive decisions. This episode reveals the powerful role of framing in marketing, helping you craft messages that influence behavior and boost engagement. Keywords: framing effect marketing, targeted messaging strategies, behavioral economics in advertising, customer decision-making, persuasive communication Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of mark...
Jul 16, 2025•10 min•Season 10Ep. 214
We’re rewinding all the way back to Season 1 — where it all began — to revisit an early favorite that laid the foundation for this podcast. This mini teaser gives you a quick look at one of the standout episodes that shaped how we think about consumer behavior and decision-making. Plus, we hint at the fresh new episode it inspired in Season 10. (No spoilers here — you'll have to listen to find out.) Whether you're revisiting the classics or catching up for the first time, this season combines ti...
Jul 14, 2025•4 min•Ep. 205
Welcome to Season 10, Episode 1 of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast — and what a milestone this is. Today, we're taking a detour from our usual format to celebrate five years and ten seasons of exploring the science of decision-making in marketing. This episode is a little more personal — a chance to go behind the mic and share the story of how this podcast came to be, what it’s grown into, and what I’ve learned along the way. If you’ve ever wondered how a marketer with a master’s i...
Jul 10, 2025•9 min•Season 10Ep. 204
Season 10 Teaser: A Big Celebration Ahead! Hey everyone, this is Sandra Thomas-Comenole, and I’m thrilled to share a quick sneak peek into what’s coming next on the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast. Season 10 marks not just a new chapter — but a major milestone: five incredible years together and ten full seasons exploring how behavioral economics transforms marketing, leadership, and beyond. This season, I’m planning something special to celebrate everything we’ve learned, the amazing ...
Jul 09, 2025•1 min
Effectively managing choice overload is essential for promoting a healthy work-life balance in remote work environments. By streamlining tools, offering structured flexibility, curating personalized workspaces, and providing clear decision-making frameworks, organizations can help employees navigate their choices with greater ease. These strategies minimize decision fatigue and empower remote workers to make informed decisions that enhance their well-being. Ultimately, addressing choice overload...
Apr 24, 2025•10 min•Ep. 201
Incorporating the framing effect into company culture initiatives for remote teams can significantly enhance engagement and cohesion. By framing communications, feedback, rewards, and policy changes in a positive light, organizations can foster a more motivating and supportive environment. This strategic approach not only improves employees' perceptions and acceptance of company initiatives but also strengthens their connection to the organization. Ultimately, leveraging the framing effect helps...
Apr 17, 2025•10 min•Ep. 197
Incorporating gamification into remote onboarding can transform the experience by making it more engaging and enjoyable. Simple strategies such as interactive learning modules, progress tracking, and virtual badges can effectively motivate new hires, enhance their learning, and foster a sense of connection with the team. By applying these gamified approaches, organizations can streamline the onboarding process, ensuring that new employees feel welcomed, supported, and integrated from the start. ...
Apr 10, 2025•10 min•Ep. 196
Addressing the Fundamental Attribution Error is essential for cultivating robust and positive relationships in remote teams. By implementing strategies such as regular one-on-one check-ins, sharing personal context in introductions, facilitating empathy-building activities, encouraging contextual insights, using situational understanding prompts in feedback, and fostering a culture of situational awareness, teams can significantly enhance mutual understanding and trust. These practices help ensu...
Apr 03, 2025•11 min•Ep. 195
Effectively applying the Trust-Building Process to remote team dynamics is essential for creating a cohesive and productive virtual work environment. By demonstrating competence through skill sharing, fostering integrity with transparent practices, supporting benevolence through regular interactions, ensuring consistency with reliable scheduling, enhancing communication through regular feedback, and promoting reliability with accountability systems, organizations can build a strong foundation of...
Mar 27, 2025•16 min•Ep. 194
Applying the Mere Exposure Effect to remote team integration can significantly improve team dynamics and cohesion. By creating regular and engaging opportunities for team members to interact, such as through virtual challenges, shared digital spaces, skill-sharing sessions, and recurring social events, organizations can leverage the power of familiarity to foster stronger connections. These repeated interactions enhance comfort and rapport among team members, making collaboration more seamless a...
Mar 20, 2025•15 min•Ep. 193
Applying Communication Theory to remote work can greatly improve the effectiveness of interactions and collaboration within dispersed teams. By implementing clear communication protocols, utilizing video conferencing to capture non-verbal cues, adopting asynchronous tools, regularly reviewing expectations, fostering an inclusive culture, and sharing detailed meeting agendas, organizations can address common challenges and enhance communication clarity. These strategies not only mitigate misunder...
Mar 13, 2025•10 min•Ep. 192
Applying Self-Determination Theory to remote work can significantly enhance employees' sense of autonomy, leading to improved motivation, job satisfaction, and overall productivity. By implementing strategies such as flexible work hours, encouraging self-directed projects, promoting skill development, facilitating open communication, creating a supportive remote culture, and defining clear goals, organizations can effectively address employees' psychological needs. These approaches not only fost...
Mar 06, 2025•9 min•Ep. 191
Addressing hyperbolic discounting is crucial for enhancing productivity in remote teams. By implementing strategies such as setting clear short-term goals, using time-blocking techniques, providing immediate feedback, incentivizing long-term goals, promoting accountability, and utilizing task management tools, teams can effectively counteract the tendency to favor immediate rewards over long-term benefits. These approaches help team members stay focused on their overarching objectives, improve t...
Feb 27, 2025•9 min•Ep. 190
The Hawthorne Effect refers to the phenomenon where individuals alter their behavior due to the awareness that they are being observed. This behavioral change can occur in response to any form of attention or monitoring, and it often leads to temporary improvements in performance or productivity. The term originates from the Hawthorne studies conducted at the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Works in the 1920s and 1930s, which demonstrated that workers' productivity increased when they knew ...
Feb 25, 2025•3 min•Ep. 202
Hyperbolic Discounting is a time-inconsistent model of delay discounting; or the tendency for people to have a stronger preference from immediate rewards over rewards that come later in the future, even when these immediate rewards are smaller. 📎 Definition Minute is a new subset of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast. In these mini-episodes, I will define economic theories, in a minute or two. The topics will be review, introductory or discrete in nature. Economics of Remote Work: Se...
Feb 25, 2025•2 min•Ep. 200
Applying the Reciprocity Principle to enhance team cooperation can significantly strengthen the collaborative spirit within an organization. By recognizing and rewarding contributions, offering support, sharing knowledge, creating team-building opportunities, and encouraging peer recognition, teams can foster a culture where mutual support and cooperation are the norm. This approach not only improves individual engagement but also contributes to a more cohesive and productive work environment. E...
Feb 20, 2025•8 min•Ep. 189
Leveraging the Halo Effect can significantly enhance remote leadership by positively shaping how leaders are perceived by their teams. By consistently demonstrating professionalism in communication, showcasing expertise, fostering positive relationships, and recognizing team achievements, remote leaders can create a strong, favorable overall impression. This positive halo can influence team members' perceptions of the leader’s competence and effectiveness, ultimately leading to improved engageme...
Feb 13, 2025•8 min•Ep. 188
Effectively applying the Hawthorne Effect to remote work involves implementing strategies that subtly remind employees of their visibility and the value of their contributions without intruding on their privacy. By adopting practices such as regular check-ins, visible metrics, and recognition systems, organizations can foster an environment where employees are motivated to perform at their best. Embracing these techniques not only enhances productivity and engagement but also helps build a suppo...
Feb 06, 2025•10 min•Ep. 187
The economics of remote work are multifaceted and far-reaching. For businesses, the potential for cost savings and enhanced productivity are compelling reasons to embrace this shift. Employees benefit from reduced expenses and improved work-life balance, although challenges persist. The broader economic landscape will continue to evolve as remote work becomes a permanent feature of the modern workplace. By comprehending and addressing these economic implications, businesses and employees can thr...
Jan 30, 2025•8 min•Ep. 186
Welcome to Season 9 of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast. This season, we are dedicating our entire series to a topic that has reshaped the professional landscape: remote work. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote work, making it the norm for many organizations worldwide. As we navigate this new reality, it's crucial to understand how behavioral economics can provide valuable insights into the dynamics of remote work. In this podcast, we'll explore theories and co...
Jan 23, 2025•7 min•Ep. 185
🚨 Season 9 of Behavioral Economics in Marketing Starts This Thursday! 🚨 I’m Sandra Thomas-Comenole, and I’m excited to kick off Season 9 with fresh insights on remote work and its impact on marketing and leadership. In Episode 1, we’ll explore how behavioral economics shapes remote work dynamics and what you can do to boost performance and collaboration in a virtual world. This season, we’ll cover: The economics of remote work and its transformation The Hawthorne Effect and its influence on re...
Jan 20, 2025•1 min•Ep. 199
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Jan 19, 2025•42 sec•Ep. 198
In the dynamic landscape of e-commerce, where a plethora of products and services beckon consumers with enticing options, the paradox of choice emerges as a significant challenge. As online shoppers navigate through an expansive array of offerings, the abundance of choices can lead to decision fatigue, indecision, and diminished satisfaction. In this episode, we delve into the intriguing realm of "The Paradox of Choice in E-Commerce." Drawing insights from behavioral economics, we explore innova...
May 09, 2024•13 min•Ep. 177
In the intricate world of email marketing, the concept of anchoring plays a pivotal role in shaping consumer perceptions of value. Just as a ship relies on its anchor to stay grounded, email marketers strategically utilize pricing as an anchor point to influence how recipients perceive the value of their offerings. This episode delves into the art and science of anchoring in email pricing, exploring how marketers strategically set price points to maximize perceived value and enhance customer eng...
May 02, 2024•9 min•Ep. 176
In the realm of marketing, the "Promotion" is not merely a communication tool; it encapsulates the essence of a brand's identity and the pledge it extends to its consumers. Positioned as a cornerstone within the 4Ps framework, Promotion is the heartbeat of a company's marketing strategy, embodying advertising, public relations, sales promotions, and the messaging that addresses consumer needs. From captivating campaigns to impactful brand storytelling, each promotional effort is a meticulously c...
Apr 25, 2024•13 min•Season 8Ep. 169
In this special episode of the behavioral economics in marketing podcast, we challenge our human nature to rely solely on perceptions and knee-jerk reactions, both in marketing strategies and interpersonal relationships, by flipping the script on the availability heuristic. As George Harrison once sang in "Got My Mind Set on You," "It's gonna take time, a whole lot of precious time," highlighting the essence of patience and persistence required to transform perceptions and reshape narratives. Ju...
Apr 23, 2024•23 min•Season 8Ep. 184
In the ever-evolving landscape of marketing, businesses are increasingly recognizing the power of social proof, not only in the digital realm but also within the physical spaces where consumers make tangible decisions. From bustling retail stores to local eateries, the concept of social proof extends its influence into our everyday surroundings. In this episode, we'll explore how businesses strategically harness the collective choices and behaviors of consumers within specific locations, examini...
Apr 18, 2024•10 min•Season 8Ep. 168
In this episode, we delve into the dynamic interplay of scarcity and location within the realm of pop-up shops. As we explore the captivating synergy between these two powerful elements, we dissect ways marketers can strategically leverage scarcity and location to amplify the impact of temporary retail experiences. From the creation of exclusive products and limited-time offers that induce a sense of urgency to the meticulous selection of high-traffic or culturally resonant locations, we unravel...
Apr 11, 2024•13 min•Season 8Ep. 167
