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Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors— habits — among consumers. These habi
Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors— habits — among consumers. These habi
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2013-11-29
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Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors— habits — among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
"There are fundamental public health problems, like hand washing with soap, that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habits," said Dr. Curtis, the director of the Hygiene Center at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that happen automatically."
The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to—Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever— had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.
If you look hard enough, you’ll find that many of the products we use every day—chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins — are results of manufactured habits. A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day. Today, because of shrewd advertising and public health campaigns, many Americans habitually give their pearly whites a cavity-preventing scrub twice a day, often with Colgate, Crest or one of the other brands.
A few decades ago, many people didn’t drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long. Chewing gum, once bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal. Skin moisturizers are advertised as part of morning beauty rituals, slipped in between hair brushing and putting on makeup.
"Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns," said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter & Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of Tide, Crest and other products last year. "Creating positive habits is a huge part of improving our consumers’ lives, and it’s essential to making new products commercially viable."
Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through relentless advertising. As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.
According to Dr. Curtis, habits like hand washing with soap______.
选项
A、should be further cultivated
B、should be changed gradually
C、are deeply rooted in history
D、are basically private concerns
答案
A
解析
本题信息点是habits like hand washing with soap,该信息点出现在文章第二段第一句话:There are fundamental public health problems,like hand washing with soap,that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habits,We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that happen automatically.,由该旬可以看出,Dr.Curtis认为那些公共卫生问题依然在吞噬着人们的生命,但是我们却想不出解决这些问题的办法,我们应该学会创造新行为习惯的方法,hand washing with soap便是企业培养起来的良好习惯之一。由此得知,Dr.Curtis认为用肥皂洗手这样的良好习惯还需要进一步培养,因此A项为本题答案。
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