TY - BOOK AU - Packard,Vance TI - The hidden persuaders SN - 9780978843106 U1 - 659.1019 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Ig Publishing KW - Advertising KW - Psychological aspects KW - Consumers KW - Psychology KW - Advertising, Political KW - Propaganda KW - Control (Psychology) N1 - 1. The depth approach -- [pt. 1.] Persuading us as consumers -- 2. The trouble with people -- 3. So ad men become depth men -- 4. ...and the hooks are lowered -- 5. Self-images for everybody -- 6. RX for our secret distresses -- 7. Marketing eight hidden needs -- 8. The built-in sexual overtone -- 9. Back to the breast, and beyond -- 10. Babes in consumerland -- 11. Class and caste in the salesroom -- 12. Selling symbols to upward strivers -- 13. Cures for our hidden aversions -- 14. Coping with our pesky inner ear -- 15. The psycho-seduction of children -- 16. New frontiers for recruiting customers -- [pt. 2.] Persuading us as citizens -- 17. Politics and the image builders -- 18. Molding "team players" for free enterprise -- 19. The engineered yes -- 20. Care and feeding of positive thinkers -- 21. The packaged soul? -- [pt. 3.] In retrospect -- 22. The question of validity -- 23. The question of morality ER -