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  • Look - Puppies! How Ads Distract from Side Effects

    RAEQUEL ROBERTS, University of Montana|Jul 16, 2025

    Most people would agree that television commercials are an irritant at worst and a beverage break at best. For University of Montana marketing researcher Jesse King, commercials – namely, pharmaceutical advertisements – are intensely interesting and a focal point of his studies for the past several years. Specifically, King studies how images used in those ads are juxtaposed against the stated benefits and risks of taking a drug. "The FDA requires pharmaceutical advertisers to present both the...