Psych Strategies

🧠 The Calendar Moments That Make Customers Finally Say Yes: The Power of Temporal Landmarks

Jan 2, 2026

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11 min read

🧠 The Calendar Moments That Make Customers Finally Say Yes: The Power of Temporal Landmarks

How temporal landmarks reset your customers’ brains and make your timing matter more than your pitch, when they are, and the 4 ways to tap into them

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🧠 The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Interactions Keep Customers Coming Back

Dec 22, 2025

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12 min read

🧠 The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Interactions Keep Customers Coming Back

How progress bars, cliffhangers, and “almost done” cues tap the brain’s need for closure and quietly increase engagement.

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🧠 The IKEA Effect: Why We Can't Let Go of the Things We Make

Dec 19, 2025

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13 min read

🧠 The IKEA Effect: Why We Can't Let Go of the Things We Make

How inviting people to assemble, customize, and co-create turns simple products into things they feel proud to keep, use, and defend.

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🧠 The Validation Loop: Why We Crave Proof That We Matter

Dec 17, 2025

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12 min read

🧠 The Validation Loop: Why We Crave Proof That We Matter

There is a quiet loop in the brain that turns recognition into reward, and reward into repeat behavior, shaping what we buy, post, and come back to...

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🧠 The Contagion Effect: How Emotion Spreads Faster Than Information

Dec 15, 2025

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11 min read

🧠 The Contagion Effect: How Emotion Spreads Faster Than Information

Why what we've done in the past carries so much weight.

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🧠 The Sunk Cost Fallacy: How Past Commitment Shapes Current Decisions

Dec 12, 2025

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11 min read

🧠 The Sunk Cost Fallacy: How Past Commitment Shapes Current Decisions

Why what we've done in the past carries so much weight.

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🧠 The Dopamine Loop: Why Anticipation is More Addictive than Achievement

Dec 10, 2025

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11 min read

🧠 The Dopamine Loop: Why Anticipation is More Addictive than Achievement

There’s a moment your brain loves more than the reward itself... and it changes everything. Discover the psychology behind it and learn how brands use it to keep people running back...

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🧠 The Ritual Effect: How Repetition Turns Moments Into Meaning

Dec 8, 2025

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10 min read

🧠 The Ritual Effect: How Repetition Turns Moments Into Meaning

Discover the psychology behind rituals and why repeated moments feel meaningful, familiar, and emotionally rewarding. Learn how brands use rituals to build connection.

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Dec 1, 2025

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10 min read

🧠 Only 3 Left

The psychology behind why “almost gone” is impossible to ignore...

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🧠 Here's how too many options kill sales (Paradox of Choice)

Nov 24, 2025

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9 min read

🧠 Here's how too many options kill sales (Paradox of Choice)

Here's exactly what to do instead, along with the psychology and strategy behind it...

Psych Strategies

May 30, 2025

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9 min read

🧠 The Peak-End Rule + Disney?

What is it, the psychology behind it, how Disney uses it, and how to use it for growth.

Psych Strategies

🧠 The Calendar Moments That Make Customers Finally Say Yes: The Power of Temporal Landmarks

🧠 The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Interactions Keep Customers Coming Back

🧠 The IKEA Effect: Why We Can't Let Go of the Things We Make

🧠 The Validation Loop: Why We Crave Proof That We Matter

🧠 The Contagion Effect: How Emotion Spreads Faster Than Information

🧠 The Sunk Cost Fallacy: How Past Commitment Shapes Current Decisions

🧠 The Dopamine Loop: Why Anticipation is More Addictive than Achievement

🧠 The Ritual Effect: How Repetition Turns Moments Into Meaning

🧠 Only 3 Left

🧠 Here's how too many options kill sales (Paradox of Choice)

🧠 The Peak-End Rule + Disney?

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