Showing posts with label negative information. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negative information. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Almost too Good to be True




Some things just seem to good to be true. Research suggests if you're selling such a product, make sure to say something bad about it as well.

Research shows that sometimes people will behave more favorably to a product when a small amount of negative information is added to an otherwise positive description. The effect increases when the information is easily processed and when negative information follows positive information.