It's not that hard to get people to watch ads

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One of life’s universal truths is that it takes three of something to make a trend. Another is that it’s easy to get people to do precisely what you want if you know just how to manipulate their neurons. With those two things in mind, we present today’s New York Times ad column, in which Stuart Elliott and Julie Bosman have discovered the three trend-signifying instances of advertisers goading viewers into watching their commercials.

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