Behaviour Change

PROPAGANDA FOR CHANGE is a project created by the students of Behaviour Change (ps359) and Professor Thomas Hills @thomhills at the Psychology Department of the University of Warwick. This work was supported by funding from Warwick's Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013

Hovis-'Go On Lad'



This advertisement by Hovis, a UK brand of flour and bread, was released in 2008 and used powerful storytelling to evoke strong emotions in the viewers by documenting the 122 years of British history since the brands launch.

Storytelling as an influential technique is used very effectively in the advert in which it tells the tale of a boy buying a loaf of bread and witnessing key moments of British history as he makes his way back home. Evidence for this technique comes from Harris (2008), who demonstrated that higher levels of story in an adverts message can lead to higher levels of response in Self-referencing processing measures as well as likability and ad-induced brand interest.

The advert by taking the viewer through time in British history illustrates how ‘Hovis’ has always  been a British product and has been there for its consumers in both good times and during hardship. This association of their brand with British history inspires feelings of patriotism in the consumer and will encourage them to buy domestic goods, in this case, Hovis bread. Research by Han (1988), found that ‘patriotic emotion’ had a significant effect on purchase intent, in his study 212 consumers were asked to evaluate 2 categories of domestic and foreign-made products, 116 TVs and 96 automobiles. It was found that patriotic emotion led to purchase intent being greater for domestic products than foreign-made products.

Han, C. M. (1988). The role of consumer patriotism in the choice of domestic versus foreign products. Journal of Advertising Research, 28(3), 25-32.

Harris, M. A. B. (2008). Getting carried away: Understanding memory and consumer processing of perceived storytelling in advertisements. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 68, 3197-3197.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Persuasion video: learn first aid


Sophie Finch, Allarna Janson
Giving blood!
By:
Stephen Mendonça
Shaady Parvarandeh
Naomi Muggleton

Recycling


Created by: 
Alex Man Ching Chou 
Jodie Chung Mun Yen

Special Thanks to:
Winnie (Actress)
Ansel Adams (Quote)
Michael Ortega (Music)
Mini Market Coventry
Hong Kong Environmental Campaign Committee 
www.djstormsblog.com

Negative Body Image

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zE8NeDwwvfg


Conor Barr
George Chester
Francesca Woolgar

Estrella Damm 2012




This Spanish beer ‘’Estrella Damn’’ advertisement uses the story of a young man in an idyllic and enviable holiday to discretely introduce the product. As the man travels through amazing sites and meets beautiful friends, the act of drinking an ‘’Estrella Damn’’ beer is highlighted as the perfect connection between all events and people. The attractiveness technique can be observed not only in the main character of the storyline and the women that surround him (DeBono & Telesca, 1990); but also in the storyline itself, set in the beautiful context of Serra de Tramuntana in Mallorca (a world heritage site).
Also an unforgettable background song makes the viewers’ remember the advertisement and thus the product.  Alexomanolaki, Loveday and Kennett (2006) show in their study that music is indeed a competent method of facilitating implicit learning and recall of the advertised product. In order to test this hypothesis they carried out a series of experiments with both musicians and non-musician subjects. In the experiment an unknown advert was included along three other adverts and in the middle of a television show. The target advert was produced in four different audio versions: jingle; music and voiceover; instrumental music; and sound effects and voiceover (which functioned as the control version). Later, an overall memory test for the television show, an indirect and a direct memory test fort the product were completed. Results from the indirect memory test show that all groups selected more words that were related to the target advert; meanwhile the control group chose more amount of neutral words. The experiment concluded that both musicians and non-musicians, under non-attentive conditions, have reinforced perception of the advert because of the music.

DeBono, K.G, Telesca, C. (1990). The Influence of Source Physical Attractiveness on Advertising Effectiveness: A Functional Perspective, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, pp. 1383–1395.

Alexomanolaki, M., Loveday, C. & Kennett, C. (2006). Music and Memory in advertising; Music as a device of implicit learning and recall, ICMPC-ESCOM, pp. 1190-1198.

Cyberbullying: Shut It Down

Must be viewed in at least 480p quality.


Members:
Matthew Cairnduff
Taylor Davies
Rebecca Newton

Thanks to:
Oliver Levett
Ben Keen

Music:
Broove - Heartbeats

First Aid: You could be the difference


Rachael Wilkes

Featuring: Rhian Miles

Music: Heather Small- Proud

Torture is never justified.


Jack Richecoeur, Jordan Quinn and Ciaran Walsh.

Fairtrade


Credits

Charlotte Faulkner

Lisa Kato

Fiona Whiteway

 

With special thanks to






www.freesfx.co.uk

www.fairtrade.org.uk/


www.mobo.com  

www.peakwater.org  




 

 

 

Do Not Walk Alone


Tessa Johncox
Hannah Moore
Sarah Cross

Homeless Aware: It Starts With A Smile

Link to Video


Maria Calle-Llorente
Rebekah Dervley
Jade Sellars
Bethany Stone

Organ Donation Ad



Laura Tavener
Minna Fung
Tanya Aldridge
Emma Gardiner

Autism: what will you think?




Clare Lee, Emma Corless, CP

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

EAPN: Get involved!






Cecilia Gonzalez
Maya Soto
Thor Hidalgo

Do not bin it, bring it

Arthur Chan
Sylvia Krupa
Marta Wesierska

Start saving energy!


Yentl Lo Yuen Tung
Alena Piamkulawanich
Aditi Somani


End 'Fat Talk!'



Persuasion Video

Sophie Harding
Anna Fitzgibbon
Stephanie Henwood

Exercise doesn't have to be boring!


Created by:
Charlotte Hoyland
Margaret Olaniyan 
Deborah Willis 


Reference:
Vanden Auweele, Y., Rzewnicki, R., & Van Mele, V. (1997). Reasons for not exercising and exercise intentions: A study of middle-aged sedentary adults. Journal of sports sciences, 15, 151-165

depression


Olivia Carabine, Katie Stenner, Rebecca Seal and Alexia Shearman.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Video

Elliot Walker
Adam Cheung

Everyone Should Vote




Made by: Rachel Drayton, Ioana Rotaru, Cora Whitney and Maria Fafouti. 

Societal pressure to be perfect- Eating disorders



Cast:
Henar Ramirez as the young girl
Martin Lausegger as the young boy

Credits:
Sophie Winand
Rubi Mancilla
Henar Ramirez

Monday, April 22, 2013

Anti-Procrastination




Created by: Kalina Wong Xin Yi, Godfrey Leung, Perry Wai Tung Chan

Warwick Welcome Service Advert


This is our advert encouraging students to apply to become part of the Warwick Welcome Service Student Ambassadors.

Created by:
Hava Kranat
Hermela Gebrekiros

Financial Literacy


Beware the Slenders and lenders: An advertisement promoting Financial literacy.

By Jess Green, Cat Rebak and Julia Langdon.

Video Assignment: How do you help the environment?


Created by: Luke Benson, Verity Smith, Rachel Dennan and Aimee Hardaker

Refuge: Domestic Abuse Awareness Video

check on youtube for better quality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uTHqcKC7o&feature=youtu.be

Some viewers may find scenes in this video disturbing.

By

Josh Smith
Jessie Baldwin
Vanessa Monasterio

Go Meat Free This Monday


Created by:
Rhiannon Whelan
Lauren Fanson
Rea Malhotra Mukhtyar

Sunday, April 21, 2013

DON'T HAVE TIME TO EXERCISE?




Created by
Emily Luke
Lucy Lu
Sarah Hunt

Actors
Sarah Hunt as main actress
Emily Luke
Lucy Lu
Aiko Dong


Saturday, April 20, 2013

Words Can Hurt


Created and edited by: 
Hafsa Imran
Junaina Pribhai
Piya Samtani

Actors:
Junaina Pribhai as victim
Guneet Kahai as father
Shiv Goel as boyfriend
Piya Samtani as sister

References: 
Women's College Hospital. (1995). Canadian women's health test. Toronto. 

Monday, April 15, 2013

Uncommon begging methods





Very often we see people begging in the street. Very different ways of begging can be observed, such as playing instruments, using kids/animals/ disabilities, plain begging or in some cases humor. In the link above we can observe several examples of begging using humor to attract attention and increase possibility of a donation.
An empirical study from Geuens and Pelsmacker (2002) provides evidence that using humor in persuasive messages does increase positive affect towards the advertised product. There were 510 participants in this study and both humorous and non-humorous advertising stimuli were used to show that humor has a positive impact on the attitudes of both high and low Need For Cognition-individuals, but that attitude formation takes place in different way. In individuals low in NFC a direct effect of humor on attitudes is found, while for individuals high in NFC and indirect influence via biased cognition is found.
Eight fictitious advertisements were made in four different products: paper handkerchiefs (low in involvement, informational product) insurance (high in involvement, informational product) a snack (low in involvement, transformational product) and holidays (high in involvement, transformational product). Two versions were used: humorous with slogans and pictures, and non-humorous just with slogans. Perceived humor, need for cognition and attitudes towards ad were all measured. Need for cognition didn’t exert any influence on number of positive ad cognitions but high NFC-individuals did have more negative cognitions towards ad. Use of humor had a positive impact on all affective responses increasing the number of positive cognitions towards ads and decreasing the number of negative ones.
The results from this experiment could be also relevant for begging, as the humor would increase the positive response towards the person and hence the possibility of the passerby giving money.

Reference
Geuens, M. &  De Pelsmacker, P. (2002). The role of humor in the Persuasion of individuals varying in need for cognition. Advances in Consumer Research, Volume 29, pp 51-55.