What do plogging, flinking, and bobbing have in common? They're all terms that marketers and policymakers created to get people to adopt certain behaviors.

Join host Sara Dommer (Penn State University) as she interviews Martin P. Fritze (Zeppelin University) and Valentyna Melnyk (University of New South Wales) about the fascinating findings of a new Journal of Marketing study showing how coining a new term can prompt specific actions. 

Reference: Martin P. Fritze, Franziska Völckner, and Valentyna Melnyk, “Behavioral Labeling: Prompting Consumer Behavior Through Activity Tags,” Journal of Marketing.

Host: Sara Dommer Topics: language, behavior, linguistics, marketing

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