Article: The behaviorist in the boardroom: the research of Frank Stanton, Ph.D.(Bibliography)

The young researcher immediately recognized the opportunity. Relaxing in his living room on a Sunday evening in October 1938, Frank Stanton tuned into CBS radio to catch Orson Welles's adaptation of War of the Worlds. As the powerfully realistic drama unfolded, Stanton sensed the singularity of the moment. Before the program finished he hurried from his Jackson Heights apartment to the parking garage, jumped into his car, and sped across the East River to the Madison Avenue headquarters of CBS. The broadcast ended just as Stanton's car pulled up. Three years earlier, Stanton had been hired by the network to improve its audience research efforts; on this night he rushed up ...

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