Design-driven companies outperform S&P by 228% over ten years (source: the ‘DMI design value index'). Content Marketers are now requested to start thinking like designers and understand psychology and human behaviour. Understanding your audience psychology can help moving towards this journey.
Among basic principles, you will discover how to apply BJ Fogg Behavior Model and Robert Cialdini 's Principles of #Persuasion to #ContentMarketing and #Design. Also, you will learn about basic principles of psychology of brand and colors.
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Giuseppe Caltabiano
HEAD OF CONTENT STRATEGY FOR EMEA & APAC
CONTENTLY
@giusec
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The psychology
behind content:
how to trigger
your users’
behaviour
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Psychology, Design, Content (the rise of the Hybrid
Marketer)
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Psychology
Content
Marketing
Design
(A very powerful)
Sweet Spot
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Today’s Agenda
Introduction Psychology Models Persuasion
An introduction to
Psychology for
Content Marketers
ELM and Fogg
Behavior Model
Cialdini’s Principles
of Persuasion
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7. Psychology, a definition
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Psychology: the study of human
behaviour in a given context
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We humans project ourselves into so
much of what we see. This instinct is
guided by our primordial desire for
emotional connections with others.
We are hardwired to seek emotion in
human faces.
For this reason, photos of human
faces in a design can profoundly
influence an audience.
We’re looking for emotions
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HumansObjects
Image with a
face saw
+160% CTR,
+290% CVR
vs. image
without face.
vs. +160% CTR
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Utilising dark patterns or tricking a user into doing
something they wouldn’t otherwise do is not persuasion.
It’s being an asshole
Victor S. Yocco. “Design for the Mind”
A word on Persuasion
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1. Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) (Petty, Caciocco)
2. Fogg Behavior Design model (E.J. Fogg)
3. Cialdini’s Persuasion Principles (Cialdini)
Three models
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Elaboration Likelihood Model
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Means your audience cares
more about the message.
They’ll pay attention and
scrutinize quality and
strength of the argument.
Central Route
Happens on a more superficial
level. Your audience will pay
less attention to the message
while being influenced by
secondary factors, such as
source credibility, visual appeal,
presentation, and enticements
like food, sex, and humour.
Peripheral Route
14. ELM in practice - Central Route
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15. ELM in practice - Peripheral Route
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16. Example of Central Route - Amazon
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17. Example of Peripheral Route - Amazon
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18. Example of Peripheral Route
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19. Example of Peripheral Route
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20. Motivation and Ability
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• What promotes central route processing and high elaboration?
• Researchers have explored 2 main factors: motivation and ability
• This leads to the next model: Fogg Behavior Model
High ABILITY to process
information
High MOTIVATION
Strong attitude toward
product or content
High ABILITY to process
information
Low ABILITY to process
information
Low MOTIVATION
Weak attitude toward product
or content
Central Route
Peripheral
Ability Motivation
“Motivation and Ability
promotes Central Route
processing
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Fogg Behavior Model
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Psychology TechnologyBehavior
Design
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• Fogg Behavior Model explains that 3 elements must come
together at the same time for a behaviour to occur:
motivation, ability and trigger
• When a behavior does not occur, at least one of those three
elements is missing
Fogg Behavior Model
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B = mat
Behavior = motivation x ability x trigger
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• When motivation is high, you can get people to
do hard things. But once it drops people will only
do easy things
• Status, Access, Power, Stuff can help boosting
motivation
Motivation
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Motivation - Duolingo (status)
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• In order to perform a target behavior, a person
must have the ability to do so
• There are two paths to increasing ability:
1. You can train people, giving them more skills
(ability) to do the target behavior
2. better path is to make the target behavior
easier to do (simplicity)
Make it easy for your audience to understand what
you offer and how to receive it.
Ability (and Simplicity)
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Simplicity increase Ability“
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Ability (and Simplicity)
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This leads to an important rule: If you
must choose what to optimize for,
always choose ability over motivation.
Become a master of simplification, not
motivation.
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• The third element of the Fogg Behavior
Model is Triggers
• Sometimes a Trigger can be external, like an
alarm sounding.
• Other times, the Trigger is internal and come
from our daily routine
Triggers
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Without a Trigger, the target
behaviour will not happen
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Triggers: Addison Lee Taxis
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• As Cialdini puts it, we’re in the age of information overload. We don’t have time
to process all of the information and then to make informed decisions
• This incapacity makes us look for signals (shortcuts)
• These signals that help us decide if we want to do something
Cialdini’s Model
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Reciprocity Consistency Scarcity Social Proof
We use signals (shortcuts) to make fast
and informed decisions“
47. References
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Giuseppe Caltabiano
HEAD OF CONTENT STRATEGY FOR EMEA & APAC
CONTENTLY
@giusec
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