Sentences with phrase «exploit psychological needs»

In a context of low demand, high competition, or actual public antagonism, advertising agents may seek to exploit psychological needs that may be only factitiously joined to the entity by the advertisement itself.

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But if presented as simply engendered by nature and need and not as a faith in the faithfulness of God — that is, as trust in its object — it is distorted into a psychological reassurance, or degraded into some sort of bonding agent which can then be exploited as a necessary adhesive for the wholeness of the personality.

On one hand, we need to acknowledge that individuals bear some responsibility for their health, and on the other hand recognise that today's food environments exploit people's biological (eg, innate preference for sweetened foods), psychological (eg, marketing techniques), and social and economic (eg, convenience and cost) vulnerabilities, making it easier for them to eat unhealthy foods,» explains Dr Christina Roberto, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA.

This phrase by the allied and pathological parent comes from a need to empower the child, both to exploit the child's expressed rejection for the other parent and also from a specific personal need to empower the child, originating from particular psychological dynamics with the allied and pathological parent (involving the reenactment narrative).