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Choice Hacking: The Marketing Psychology Podcast — 123 episodes

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The Rise & Fall of Borders | The UNTOLD Psychological Story Behind Its Decline

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Why Smart NFL Teams Make TERRIBLE Draft Decisions - And Lose $400M+ A Year Doing It

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What Happened to Windows Phone? The UNTOLD Psychological Story Behind Microsoft's Biggest Failure

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Social Proof, Revealed: The Real Reason This Marketing Psychology Principle Makes Buyers Trust & Buy From You - And Why Using It the Wrong Way Can Kill Your Brand

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The Hidden Psychology That Makes SHEIN So Successful | How to create engaging shopping experiences without crossing ethical lines

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What Happened to Sora? The UNTOLD Psychological Story Behind the Failure of OpenAI's Sora Video

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The Hidden Psychology Saving CHIPOTLE’S Business Model (Even as Fast Food Prices Are Going Up)

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The Psychology Behind Liquid Death's Astonishing Growth | How to take on the big boys when you're a small (but mighty) brand

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How Luxury Brands Use Psychology Against You (Hermes, Porsche, Ferrari, Rolex) | How to make people crave your products

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The $1B Psychology Behind Duolingo & Its Unhinged Mascot | How to make your product a habit, so buyers keep

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How Zara Used Psychology to Make $38B with Mass Market Fashion | How to get attention, drive sales, and avoid the Wallpaper Effect

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The Rise & Fall of Toys R Us | The Psychology Behind Its Failure

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Loss Aversion: How to ethically drive action, urgency, and sales with buyer psychology

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Greatest Hits: How Psychology Saved Apple | Why this principle is so powerful, to brands of all sizes

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Greatest Hits: How Psychology Built Febreze Into a $1B Brand

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Greatest Hits: The Pratfall Effect: What happens when brands make big, public mistakes

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Greatest Hits: Why Hermes, Porsche, Ferrari, and Rolex Hold Their Products Hostage

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Greatest Hits: How Psychology Saved Dominos Pizza | How to survive when your customers hate you

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Greatest Hits: How Jo Malone (a tiny perfume company) used psychology to take over the world

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Greatest Hits: How Coffee (and a Bit of Psychology) Saved McDonald's

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Greatest Hits: The Psychology Behind the Rise of Liquid Death

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Greatest Hits: The Psychology Behind SPOTIFY'S Success

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Greatest Hits: How COURSERA made education (ethically) addictive

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How Walmart Used Psychology to Become the World's Biggest Company | How to grab attention, drive sales, and build trust

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The Psychological Traps That Killed Blockbuster Video | Lessons on how to build, grow, and innovate your business

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How Apple, Amazon, and Patagonia Used the Halo Effect to Build Billion Dollar Brands

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The psychological power of Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte | How to create cult products no matter your industry or size

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Why Slate Trucks is Attracting Investors like Jeff Bezos with the Power of Buyer Psychology | How to create attention-getting products with built-in audiences

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How Apple's iPhone Used Psychology to Conquer the Smartphone Market | How to create and launch a status brand

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The Choice Overload Effect: When too many options is a bad thing | How to attract more buyers by streamlining your offers

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How one simple psychology principle transformed this product from low class to luxury (and a $41B market) | How to create meaningful products and marketing messages

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How Coca-Cola used psychology to become the world's most memorable brand | How to win the battle for your buyer’s mind

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Greatest Hits: The psychology of Starbucks Rewards

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The Pratfall Effect: What happens when brands make big, public mistakes (2025)

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How Psychology Built Febreze Into a $1B Brand

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The Psychological Power of "Ugly" Design

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How Psychology Saved Apple

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Welcome to Season 7

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Greatest Hits: How Mini (and BMW) used psychology to become a cult classic

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Greatest Hits: The UNTOLD story of why Kmart failed

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Greatest Hits: The Psychology Behind Aldi's Massive Growth

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Greatest Hits: How Duolingo Used Psychology to Make Learning Addictive

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Greatest Hits: Why Hermes, Porsche, Ferrari, and Rolex Hold Their Products Hostage

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Greatest Hits: The Peak-End Rule: A Golden Rule for Amazing Customer Experiences

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Greatest Hits: Part Two - How Disney used psychology to become the happiest place on Earth

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Greatest Hits: Part One - How Disney used psychology to become the happiest place on Earth

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How Psychology Saved Domino's Pizza

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Jo Malone: How a tiny perfume company used psychology to take over the world

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How Red Bull Uses Psychology to Sell 15k Energy Drinks a Day

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Greatest Hits: The Psychology Behind the Failure of JC Penny

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The Psychology Behind the Rise of Liquid Death

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Greatest Hits: How Target used psychology to perfect its experience

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How COURSERA made education (ethically) addictive

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The Psychology Behind SPOTIFY'S Success

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Greatest Hits: The Billion Dollar Marketing Genius Behind Grey Goose

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The Psychology Behind Quibi's $2B Fail

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How psychology saved Chivas Regal scotch

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How coffee (and a bit of psychology) saved McDonald's

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How Mini (and BMW) used psychology to become a cult classic

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The psychology behind Blockbuster's $3B failure

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Why Hermes, Porsche, Ferrari, and Rolex hold their products hostage

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Greatest Hits: The Psychological Failure of New Coke

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Greatest Hits: How Starbucks Used Psychology to Become the World's Biggest Coffee Chain

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The UNTOLD story of why Kmart failed

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How a tiny perfume company used psychology to take over the world

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Greatest Hits: The Cobra Effect or, When Your Best Intentions Backfire

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How Duolingo Used Psychology to Make Learning Addictive

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Greatest Hits: How Costco used psychology to become the world's 3rd largest retailer

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Greatest Hits: How Nike Used Psychology to Become the World's Biggest Sportswear Brand

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Greatest Hits: The Gruen Effect: The fascinating ways store environments affect what (and how much) we buy

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Greatest Hits: Why Steve Jobs Stole from a Hotel to Build the Apple Store (and you should too)

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The Psychology Behind Aldi's Massive Growth

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How Coca-Cola used psychology to become the world's most memorable brand

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The psychology of Starbucks Rewards

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Part Two: How Amazon Uses Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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Part One: How Amazon Uses Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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Part Two: How Uber (Allegedly) Manipulated Its Drivers Using Psychology & Behavioral Science

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Part One - How Uber Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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How Psychology Saved Dominos Pizza

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The Peak-End Rule: A Golden Rule for Amazing Customer Experiences

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The psychology behind the failure of JC Penny

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The psychology behind Tesla's rise (and how its marketing approach backfired spectacularly)

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The Billion Dollar Marketing Genius Behind Grey Goose

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How Red Bull Uses Psychology to Sell 15k Energy Drinks a Day

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Greatest Hits: The Halo Effect: Why beautiful design is more powerful than a perfect product

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Greatest Hits: How WALMART used psychology to become the world's biggest retailer

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How Costco used psychology to become the world's 3rd largest retailer

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Part Two: How Disney used psychology to become the happiest place on Earth

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Part One: How Disney used psychology to become the happiest place on Earth

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Greatest Hits: How IKEA used psychology to become the world's biggest furniture retailer

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Idleness Aversion: Why we hate to wait (and what to do about it)

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The Endowment Effect: Creating emotional bonds your customers don't want to break

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Unskilled and Unaware: The Story of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Greatest Hits: How Netflix Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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Why Steve Jobs Stole from a Hotel to Build the Apple Store (and you should too)

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The Cobra Effect: When Your Best Intentions Backfire

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The Psychological Failure of New Coke

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Uber: Part Two

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Uber: Part One

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The Pratfall Effect: What happens when brands f'up

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How Target Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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How Netflix Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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The Gruen Effect: The fascinating ways store environments affect what (and how much) we buy

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Confirmation Bias: The ethics and advantages of customers' desire to be right

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How Nike Used Psychology to Become the World's Biggest Sportswear Brand

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WORDLE: The Fascinating Psychology Behind Why It's Gone Viral

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The Halo Effect (Remastered): Why design overrides functionality

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How Starbucks Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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How Peloton Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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Hyperbolic Discounting: Why we punish our future selves

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Fresh Start Effect: Why holidays make us want to change

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How Walmart Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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How Trader Joe's Defeated Choice Overload

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How Peloton Used Psychology to Perfect Its Experience

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Cocktail Party Effect: How to apply the science of personalization

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How IKEA used psychology to become the world's biggest furniture retailer

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Social Proof: The persuasive power of crowds

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Cashless Effect: How eliminating the “pain of payment” can improve your experience

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The Halo Effect: Why design can override functionality

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Loss Aversion: Why losing is twice as painful as winning

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The Peak-end Rule: Why some moments matter more than others

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Confirmation Bias: How our desire to be right influences our memories and beliefs

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The Choice Overload Effect: Why more is less