imprinting

Brand perceptions and this cultural imprinting he refers to are driven by word of mouth, media coverage, and third party validation...

The imprinting is real, but I do get irked by crude marketing attempts to lump me in with my cohorts.

Perhaps cultural imprinting is as much about reinforcing our self-image as it is about impressing our peers?

It's better to design for in-place infiltration instead of run-off by remediating hardpan, imprinting, contour earthworks, etc.

Of course a lot of this cultural imprinting is simply intended to trigger standard persuasive principles sometime down the line.

Any product enjoyed or discussed in the presence of your peers is ripe for cultural imprinting.

Intellectual generalism seems to require, or at least strongly favor, a departure from innate mental dispositions in favor a cultural imprinting.

It's superficial, and it's imprinting in younger generations that music is just another commodity.

Cultural imprinting works because it leverages the desire that humans have to portray a certain image or belong to a certain group.

The point about cultural imprinting (or whatever you want to call it) is, again naively quite insightful and explains brand advertising rather well.

Cultural imprinting is then the simulation mechanism underlying self-image manipulation, as you mention.

Oh, I don't think they should be applied globally, but generational imprinting is extremely useful when applied within a society.

That's called "instinct", and the partial implementation "imprinting".

He's calling it "cultural imprinting", but I learned it as "lifestyle advertising".

Oddly there is no way, really, to easily not get imprinted, and because of that imprinting you will recognize others who came of age at that same time as peers and people who came of age earlier or later as "different" (sometimes good different and sometimes bad different).