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Because everyone else is doing it Bagels, cookies, vodka, and even humus. Love it or hate it (is there an in-between?), you can’t escape it: Fall means pumpkin spice everything.  Everybody is getting on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. Thank you, Starbucks. So, how does this obsession happen?...

Recently Engagious president Rich Thau posted The Science of Getting Out the Vote, a Dan Ariely article about the science of getting out the vote. ON this election day, we’re linking to another Ariely article https://www.lemonade.com/blog/persuade-your-friends-to-vote/ with a simple behavioral economics strategy for getting your friends...

Dan Ariely and Supriya Syal explore the ways behavioral science can be used to nudge people to become voters. (They don’t include getting inspiring candidates on the ballot.) One of the biggest factors for success? Having a PLAN. Not just committing to voting, but knowing when in...

DRINKING YOUR OWN KOOL-AID IS BAD FOR YOUR (POLITICAL) HEALTH We see it time and again. Critical policy messages that miss the mark.  The reason is simple: they were vetted with the wrong people. If you are based in the Washington, DC area, whether you’re a corporation,...

Is Now a Good Time to Do Research? Should We Wait To Do Research "Until this is Over?"   We have been fielding these questions since March. We can now say definitively that yes, now is not only a good time, but a great time. Back when this...

Some customers are eager to return, others need reassurance. Here's how to message to them as you welcome them back.   Concern is on the rise, especially as COVID-19 cases spike throughout the U.S. "Is it safe to go to (fill in name of business)? Are they...

Engagious traveled, virtually, to Erie, PA, for June’s Swing Voter Project, where we visited online with six Obama-Trump voters and three Romney-Clinton voters.  Have you noticed consistent trends in each month’s SVP report? You’ll want to read this month’s findings—there’s been a shift.  Trump’s support among these...

Engagious traveled, virtually, to Erie, PA, for June’s Swing Voter Project, where we visited online with six Obama-Trump voters and three Romney-Clinton voters.  Have you noticed consistent trends in each month’s SVP report? You’ll want to read this month’s findings—there’s been a shift.  Trump’s support among these...

Engagious is a Member of ZoomGov   This high-security platform for web conferencing is used by fewer than 1% of all accounts. ZoomGov was specifically designed to serve sensitive areas of the US Government. We use this same technology for all our online qual research: online focus...