Awaken automatisms

Action Bias

The need to take action.

Hand-drawn row of three cars in blue, grey and yellow, with the blue car in front of a grey one and honking text above it.

How it works

People tend to act actively even if their behavior is senseless or even harmful.

When to use it

Use the effect if you want to motivate your visitors and increase their willingness to purchase your product.

Motivate situational impulse buying.

Online examples from practice

Impulse purchases

Motivate situational impulse buying.

  • „Whining Zone“ at the checkout
  • Offer suitable additional products in the check-out process
  • Mention bookable services such as extended warranties
German online shop cart page with an Apple iPhone 13 item, quantity selector, trade-in option and collapsed device-protection and service offers.
mediamarkt.de
Overlay listing three device-protection plans and a screen-protection service with checkboxes, one marked as popular, plus 'Nein, danke' and 'Weiter' buttons.
mediamarkt.de

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