Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys 59
TaeKwonDood writes "Does sex sell for monkeys the way it does humans? Apparently so. And researchers are now hoping sexy billboards can cause monkeys to prefer a flavor of Jell-O they otherwise do not."
Go bannanas (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Go bannanas (Score:4, Insightful)
"Monkeys have been shown in previous studies to really love photographs of alpha males and shots of genitals, and we think this will drive their purchasing habits."
Huh.. so we're really not that different.
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Was there ever a doubt?
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Was there ever a doubt?
Churches (as institutions) putting strict rules on sexuality: it derails the mind from what they are preaching (fear) and their control.
(in the above, church != religion)
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Was there ever a doubt?
Churches (as institutions) putting strict rules on sexuality: it derails the mind from what they are preaching (fear) and their control.
(in the above, church != religion)
The doubt still doesn't exist, only it's certainty manifested as denial...
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just sayin'
Go primative first.
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just sayin'
Go primative first.
Once you go primative, you can't go sublimative, just sayin'.
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Not News, Not stuff that matters! (Score:3, Funny)
Did I mistakenly load an idle story? Sorry, haven't been here in while.
Re:Not News, Not stuff that matters! (Score:5, Funny)
Did you come back just to show how much you don't like a site you don't read?
Wow, sad life.
Would be a lot more interesting... (Score:2)
...to see monkeys aim at an ad campaign.
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Mod parent down; SPAM.
Been there done that - GEICO (Score:2)
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Monkeys are in the market for auto insurance you say?
You know, that explains a lot about the driving habits of the "people" I encounter to and from work.
Uh Oh (Score:4, Funny)
When I pictured an ad using sex to sell jell-o, I pictured a jell-o fight between two attractive females. That was an awesome thought.
Then I pictured the same ad, but with monkeys. That was a less awesome thought.
I don't think I want jell-o anymore :(
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When I pictured an ad using sex to sell jell-o,
you pig!
I pictured a jell-o fight between two attractive females.
O, what a let-down :-(
Creating a culture of consumerism in monkeys? (Score:3)
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No pictures... (Score:2)
They said in the New Scientist article (linked from TFA) that they cannot show the ads "until the study is finished". I think there's a message about who they think the scientific community is, somewhere in that statement.
Re:No pictures... (Score:4, Informative)
Science is competitive. If you've ever worked with scientific data sharing you know that scientists are totally paranoid about unpublished data. And history shows they're justified. Watson and Crick weren't entirely up front with Rosalind Franklin about how they were using her data. Later they stiffed her on the degree of credit she deserved, minimizing her contribution even though they'd have had no chance of being first to publish without her xray data.
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BTW, there was a Nova episode about this
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/ [pbs.org]
Not until the human part is finished? (Score:1)
Just ask Atari (Score:2)
http://youtu.be/vhbki3LtxPs [youtu.be]
Of course it does. Monkey whores. (Score:4, Interesting)
Does sex sell for monkeys the way it does humans?
Of course, it does. I know this is a *slightly* different question, but it has already largely been asked a long time ago. Almost a decade ago, researches at Yale were studying monkeys learning to use money. They taught them to use currency to buy fruit and jello. They then discovered that monkeys would use money to buy favors. And not long after that, they discovered that the females would start prostituting themselves to the males, in return for money and then they would use the money to go buy treats for themselves, after the sex.
It would only seem entirely logical that they would, therefore, have similar reactions to sex used in "marketing".
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This is an outgrowth of the same Yale studies :)
Seems that jello is the product they're using, too.
timothy
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So the real story is that Jell-O is funding universities to study how they can literally move product into the monkey world - whether by advertising or whoring. Devious.
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Seems that jello is the product they're using, too.
... as a lube?
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Jell-O is all purpose.
timothy
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linky? i'm too lazy to google.
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The researchers tried to downplay that aspect of the study. It wasn't an intentional "let's see if they're pay for sex" study. It was the byproduct of the introduction of currency and economy and trade that occurred naturally and definitely disturbed those involved.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05FREAK.html?pagewanted=1 [nytimes.com]
Statue of Liberty (Score:2)
Is anyone else picturing the Statue of Liberty barely sticking out of a sandy beach?
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Is anyone else picturing the Statue of Liberty barely sticking out of a sandy beach?
Am I the only one picturing the Statue of Liberty covered in Jell-o?
Here is something of interest to everyone (Score:2)
Missed the mark (Score:2)
Her basic premise was a mistake.
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um, they used alpha males as well. they did two sets of ads.
at least read the summary.
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It's a big duh that funds are only available to research what turns on MALE monkeys.
... and female bonobos...
Prior art: every Light Beer commercial ever (Score:2)
seriously, light beer commercials are the most brain-dead things I have ever seen. How else are you going to sell that crap?
Tivo (Score:2)
At first.... (Score:2)
At first I thought this was an acknowledgement of the poltical season being in full swing. Thankfully, this does not yet hold true, and we're actually talking about monkeys.
I already wondered what the gorilla (Score:1)
Everybody's Got Something To Hide... (Score:2)
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6ejvcV9Vs [youtube.com]