by Brian | Jul 21, 2011 | Persuasive Psychology
This presentation provides a simple recipe for designing more engaging websites, social media profiles, or technologies by leveraging the principles of cyber persuasion, through the digital persuasion equation and the eight spheres of digital...
by Brian | Apr 28, 2011 | Persuasive Psychology
Back in 2011, I published a scientific study on the psychological design of health behaviour change websites in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). With my co-authors Prof Thelwall and Prof Dawes, we designed this study with the goal of identifying how to...
by Brian | Oct 27, 2010 | Persuasive Psychology
From 2006-2008, I conducted a large study of website credibility on a global anti-poverty campaign, in order to assess the impact of website credibility and trust on target audience’s participation levels. The study found a relationship between website...
by Brian | May 4, 2010 | Digital campaigns
The roots of social marketing date back to the 1950s, when one psychologist argued that the more non-profit organizations communicated like for-profit marketers, the better their prospects for success. Then during the 1960s, practitioners in developing countries and...