It seemed really surreal to me so I asked about it, apparently they have hours for people on the spectrum to make it more comfortable for them. As far as I know, I’m not on the spectrum but this environment was soooooo calming. It was like being at a spa. Is this not something everyone enjoys or should I consider getting checked out for autism??
It’s so weird that these days you have to almost bring a note from your doctor if you don’t want a constant barrage of sensory overload
The gas pumps that blast ads at you are driving me insane. All of the places in between my house and my work have them now.
I bust those speakers with a knife or nail every time and it brings me such immense satisfaction to do so
There are cameras everywhere, and they literally have your license plate number. Seems kind of stupid.
In my area if you press the second button from the top on the left it mutes these!
Mute them by pressing the buttons beside the screen one by one top to bottom, one of them will work if not the top one on the right I think.
This used to work for me but unfortunately at least two places I haven’t been able to figure out any button combination that mutes them which has been infuriating.
It seems kinda counterintuitive to me from a business standpoint too. I feel like if people are in a better mood and relaxed, they would be more willing to buy more stuff? Or does the constant anxiety pressure people into buying more? I unno?
Yeah, if I ever catch a calm hour in the store, I’ll actually look through the aisles and check out products I wouldn’t normally buy. If the store is busy, I grab the usual and flee as quickly as possible.
The logic I’ve heard is that people think less logically and are more impulsive when disoriented.
Some of the best paid jobs for psychologists are working for companies to devise surreptitious ways to make people buy more.
In advertising as well. I noticed quite an uptick in the ‘annoyance’ factor of tv and radio ads somewhere between 2005 and 2010. People were more likely to discuss bad ads, or ads with a quirk of some kind. Hate is an easier strong emotion to coerce with an ad so they fully went with it and somehow the negative attention equalled more sales.
It’s hard to imagine some business exec coming up with this research, it’s more likely a team of psychology majors who would rather earn more money than actually help people.
This is more or less the case. Advertising psychology is a wildly lucrative field, if you’re good at it. Turns out “I know how ppl think, I will unveil the mystique” and “you can make more money” is right at the intersection of $$$
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.
I’m no psychologist but I’ve certainly avoided stores that made me uncomfortable because, well they made me uncomfortable
Same here. Or if I have no choice, I’ll have several instances of overwhelm where I freeze and process just enough to continue, get flustered, and just skip looking at anything at all I don’t need. Tunnel vision is a major cope. And even stuff I do need, and specifically came for, often gets left behind because I just can’t.
I wish I could get groceries delivered, but there aren’t any services in my area (close by, but I’d have to get them delivered to a delivery locker site for a huge fee, and at that point I may as well just do the shopping myself). That’s the biggest instance of this for me. I genuinely hate grocery shopping.