Ernest Dichter and motivation research
new perspectives on the making of post-war consumer culture ; [First International Conference on Ernest Dichter and Motivation Research, organised by the editors at the University of Vienna in December 2005]
"Contextualizing Ernest Dichter within modern consumer culture and the rise of psychological approaches to post-war consumption in Europe and the US, this book argues that 1950s motivation research gives a unique vantage point from which to address questions of the transatlantic transfer of the cultures and institutions of consumption and marketing"--
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Self-Help. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Self-Help
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-2305-3799-6
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL25558672M
A more thoughtful way into this book
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Self-Help, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- Which ideas feel usable in your actual circumstances—not only persuasive on the page?
- Where does the author distinguish evidence, experience, and opinion?
- What would a small, humane experiment with one idea look like?
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