{"id":8133,"date":"2019-06-06T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2019-06-06T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T21:07:32","slug":"updated-how-airlines-use-intimidation-to-persuade-you-to-spend-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/06\/06\/updated-how-airlines-use-intimidation-to-persuade-you-to-spend-more-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: How airlines use intimidation to persuade you to spend more money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago, I wrote about airlines&#8217; new policies of dividing cabins into as many as 9 different tiers or classes of customers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But even more important is the \u201cperp\u201d walk effect. By boarding last, you get to walk down the entire plane and put yourself on display as the poor person who can\u2019t afford a real seat. The intent is to make you look bad relative to others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/12\/14\/how-airlines-use-intimidation-to-persuade-you-to-spend-more-money\/\">How airlines use intimidation to persuade you to spend more money \u2013 SocialPanic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers are saying the same thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once on the plane, passengers can see where they fit in the hierarchy, with the seats getting smaller and thinner and legroom tighter with each passing row.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirplanes are the physical embodiment of a status hierarchy,\u201d said Keith Payne, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of \u201cThe Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live and Die.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bendbulletin.com\/business\/7190375-151\/no-class-outside-first-class-flight-tiers-can\">No class outside first class? Flight tiers can lead to unruly passengers, research shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago, I wrote about airlines&#8217; new policies of dividing cabins into as many as 9 different tiers or classes of customers, creating a sense of peer pressure between the haves and have-nots. Now, researchers say this passenger hierarchy appears to lead to more in flight aggression by passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-in-practice","category-propaganda-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}