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Featured perception studies

Orange Juice

What does high quality orange juice look like? 50 people sorted 24 images of photography, labels and packaging, placing 535 green and red dots. Dew on cut fruit took 97%. A trendy can took zero. Packaging only wins when real fruit surrounds it. One variable explains every score: distance from the tree.

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How a U.S. Public Distinguishes “Health” from “Wellness”

“Health” and “wellness” get used almost interchangeably — but do people picture the same thing? We asked 26 participants to sort 36 images between the two words with no definitions provided. The boundary they drew was strikingly consistent: health is what the body does; wellness is what it receives.

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The Anatomy of Craving, or What All That Brand Money Isn’t Buying

Every year, brands spend fortunes on nostalgia — the polar bears, the holiday trucks, the Santa on retainer — betting that feeling is what sells the drink. So we tested it. We asked 467 people what actually makes them crave a Coke, and the results were unkind to the marketing budget: not the beloved icons, but cold, wet, in-motion liquid — condensation on glass, a bottle at the lips. People don’t crave the brand. They crave the drink.

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