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Department of Veterans Affairs
Combined Assessment Program Summary Report – Evaluation of Medication Oversight and Education in Veterans Health Administration Facilities
The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) worked with Temple University’s Center for Neural Decision Making to conduct a neuromarketing study focused on the differing response to physical and digital media in the consumer buying process, including intent to purchase. Neuromarketing is a rigorous scientific method that explores the consumer’s subconscious response — beyond stated preference. In other words, neuromarketing methods reveal actual activity deep in the brain and other physiological responses as opposed to stated answers to survey questions. The study linked consumers’ subconscious responses to three buying process phases.