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This Is Your Brain On Ads: How Mass Marketing Affects Our Minds

How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio show, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media.
The cereal ads we saw when we were 5 years old can still influence our buying decisions at 50.

After you read this sentence, pause for a moment to think back on advertisements you first heard when you were a child.

Perhaps you recall a

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