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Raj Raghunathan

Marketing professor, McCombs School of Business

Professor at the McCombs School of Business who, in a 2006 study, invited diners to sample Indian food and drink, telling half the group a lassi was healthy and the other half that it was unhealthy. Diners told the lassi was unhealthy rated its flavor 55% higher than those told it was healthy — perceived healthiness lowered perceived taste for the identical drink (see Raghunathan Healthy-vs-Unhealthy Lassi Taste Study). Referenced, not interviewed.

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  • Episode 143 — 143-does-subliminal-advertising-work

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