Escaping the Hamster Wheel
In Stephan Grünewald's article, published in the "Frankfurter Rundschau", he reflects on our perception of time along our lives. He explains how we can take a step back and escape the spinning hamster wheel.
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“Made in Germany”: America’s Fascination with German Products
When are Americans fascinated by German products and when do they get skeptic? What do you need to know when entering the US Market as a German company? Patricia Sauerbrey Colton speaks about opportunities and limitations.
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Rheingold consumerClinic - Private Treatment to Better Understand Target Groups
Heinz Grüne describes one of rheingold's popular stakeholder workshops, the consumerClinic.
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Food Scares: Afraid to Indulge!
Spoiled meat, imitation cheese or composite ham: Food industry scares seem to represent a very recent phenomenon. But do food scares really impact consumer behavior or are they simply hyped by the media? Jens Lönneker explains the psychological background.
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Made up Truths - How Make-up Creates the Real Me
Ines Imdahl speaks about the psychological motivations to use make-up.
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Cross-Culture Approach
Thomas Pohne explores why international research is sometimes exhausting for our clients and why we do it the way we do it.
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Make Lemonade - America and the financial crisis
Sebastian Buggert talks about how Americans are coping with the crisis and why these changes are more than just a response to the downturn.
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New Study “Youth Today”: Young People Demand Clearer Statements from Adults and the Media
Young people in Germany are insecure. In a world characterized by consumption and artificiality, they are searching for orientation and positive values. In this quest, they seek more information a...
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Luxury - A Superfluous Necessity
What is luxury? And do we actually need it? Isn’t luxury something that really only concerns the very rich? Or do we need to re-define how we see luxury these days??
By Ines Imdahl (MSc. Psychology), Managing Partner, rheingold Institute for Qualitative Market and Media Research
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Yearning to be thin: Super skinny as a symbol of luxury
An astonishing number of models and Hollywood stars have been hit by a new virus. The symptoms are a carcass-like physique combined with the sudden ability to tuck into what they want without putting...
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Fat and Informed? We long for a return to clear rules about eating.
People who get fat do so knowingly! Nowadays the abundance of nutritional information which confronts people on a daily basis means they know what makes them fat. Research into nutrition and exerc...
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V.E.N.U.S.: Women are different – on women’s self-understand misunderstanding today
Women are different … complicated and hard to understand – and not in the eyes of men. That prejudice could not be refuted by this study. But precisely the complicated, multilayered, a...
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ANUGA 2007: Organic, Chilled, and Functional food – the Psychology of Innovations. A comprehensive lecture by Jens Lönneker on October 16, 2007, at the ANUGA in Cologne
While consumers go for new products, they ignore many new introductions. Which psychological criteria do successful innovations meet today? In the face of inflated organic, convenience, and functiona...
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Psychological Impacts of Health Claims – Talk at the ILSI Symposium
The international symposium of the ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute , held over three days from May 9 to 11, 2007, was devoted to the topic of functional food. Academics and sci...
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Light, easy to digest, transportable
rheingold’s hypotheses on current nutritional trends: 1. People’s eating behavior continues to be de-rhythmized. Fixed, ritualized meals are becoming less and less prevalent. Food is ...
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Stylish, cultivated meat display
They should be draped appetizingly, if possible with an attractively photographed garnishing suggestion, but in any case the should be very visible: consumers have high demands when it comes to...
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The mind as artwork
D.: Herr Professor Salber, Cologne got a better reputation with Salber, but you are somewhat controversial. You have fans and you have foes. What is the crux of what you do? S.: That probably has t...
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Better to believe than to have to face up to it
When people talk today about the “new religiosity” of young people, what they say often has a religious character itself. People often act as though they can understand, explain, and asse...
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Pretests of advertisements, placards, advertising spots, and packaging using the Message Tuning Concept (MTC)
The primary characteristics of effective advertising Many kinds of pretests evaluate advertising efficacy based solely on impact, assertiveness, and rational persuasiveness. That is not enough. Ca...
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A new home in the Internet
Numerous rheingold studies show: surfing the Web is characterized by a new self-determined reductionism – with significant consequences for successful website design. While just a few years ...
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Flirting with disaster – why is the Titanic myth so universally appealing?
The phenomenal movie by James Cameron and the exhibition of Titanic relics in Hamburg (which was also very well-received) gave rheingold occasion to conduct a psychological pilot study on the theme a...
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Senior citizens today: banned to paradise
Anyone who thinks being a senior citizen means continuing down familiar paths is wrong. Elderly people undergo comprehensive transformations. The change of numerous “external” living cond...
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Impact analysis of Formula 1 – an example of qualitative spectator research
Lecture to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Sportpsychologen on June 2, 2000, in Cologne. ...
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The fascination of running a marathon: a via doloroso as psychical rebirth
People who run marathons as a hobby experience the 26 mile, 385 yard race as a voluntary ‘via doloroso’ encompassing four stages, from a psychical experience of complete self-sacrifice to...
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Television as a 'pharmacy for feelings'
The variety of programs shown by private networks has changed the function of television for viewers. Today television is a kind of 'pharmacy for feelings'. At the press of a button, constantly avail...
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Shopping viewed psychologically
When people go shopping, no matter where they shop, they always do it - all rational or "objective" motives notwithstanding - "for themselves," for the sake of mental balance, for their "...
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Male worlds
Today there is no longer a general, self-evident image of how men should appear. While in earlier generations a clear male image defined the roles and duties men were supposed to fulfill, what men ha...
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The window to meaning
Did the Pope's public dying give rise to a new pious awakening or even reflection on the importance of the authority of the Church? Or are there other, psychological explanations for the enormo...
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Harry Potter - development help for young and old
Harry Potter is much more than casual reading entertainment, much more than a suspenseful adventure novel focusing on a faraway world. Harry Potter provides real psychological development help, in fi...
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The Fascination of Formula One: A Turbulent Sunday Drive in the Armchair
On Sundays when there is a Formula One race, millions of people sit glued to their TV sets. For example, when Michael Schumacher crashed in Silverstone, more than ten million people watched the event...
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Future Woman
Future woman should consider herself lucky. For women aged 25 to 35 have all kinds of possibilities open to them. But below the surface, things are different. In todays world, women feel obligated to...
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Programmed Free Time
Our culture is considered a leisure culture. From a psychological point of view, this is a big misunderstanding. For in our culture having "free time" does not mean being idle. When we are not work...
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Is buisness local or global? The rheingold answer: it´s glocal
In recent years borders have been opened increasingly to promote free trade. Nevertheless, marketing is still confronted with psychological borders. For example, dark chocolate sells well in France...
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Cross-over teams: International research a la rheingold
At r h eingold , international studies are conducted by so-called cross-over teams. These teams consist of staff from the country where the market research institute is based (in r h eingold s ca...
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Best Practise in Advertising
Consumers are influenced by unconscious forces.One should not view consumers as being logical, rational beings. Consumers do not function logically, but psychologically. They cannot be understood acc...
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Modern Women
Todays young women have high expectations of themselves. They want to have successful careers, be perfect mothers and housewives, be sexy and clever all at the same time. They "desperately" try to fi...
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Discovering the hidden meanings of markets, brands and advertising
Using depth psychological methods and the concepts of morphological market and media research , r h eingold casts a light on the structures, the dynamics and develo...
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beauty life
How do women deal with beauty and cosmetics today? Which needs, desires, and longings are concealed behind the usage of cosmetics? What do women want to achieve with "beauty" and how does it alter th...
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Chocolate without culture: asocial?
In Italy, it is often nibbled as an accompaniment to an espresso. British mothers love to indulge – but not in front of their children. The French ideal is the pure, plain variety. And in Germa...
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Integration without ignoring important cultural differences
r h eingold s cross-cultural approach means that project research managers perform the task of integration and cultural comparison from the beginning to the end of the research process. Internation...
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Chinese Culture meets western marketing
In order to understand Chinese consumers and their perception of markets, brands, products and services, it is essential to understand the cultural attitude towards these things. No matter if it&rsqu...
