By c ombining the height and the angle of how the cereal spokes character look creates the incidental eye contact depending on who is the cereal brand marketed to.
Eye contact cereal boxes.
Buy this one mom and older higher educated consumers of sweet crunchy carbs in gaudy boxes aka college students in a cornell food and brand lab experiment say they trust a brand when directly eyeballed by the trix bunny.
The study has also found out that the average distance of view these cereal boxes is four feet away from the shelves.
Cereal boxes aimed at children are specifically designed so that the eyes of the mascots look downward making direct eye contact with the sugar goblins that they are hoping to seduce.
Children in supermarket cereal aisles respond more positively to eye contact with cartoon spokes characters.
The study found that trust for and connection to a brand are significantly increased when eye contact is established.
It s nothing new that items are strategically.
The placement of cereal boxes on grocery store shelves might be about more than just easy access for kids it seems to influence how much eye contact children make with the characters on the boxes.
When walking down the cereal aisle the best line of defense for children and adults may be to avoid eye contact with the cereal box characters.
The creepy ways that cereal boxes get your kid s attention quartz.
The researchers came to that conclusion after participants viewed two versions of a trix cereal box one in which eye contact was made and one in which it was not.
This eye contact isn t just a matter of being polite.
The placement of cereal boxes on grocery store shelves might be about more than just easy access for kids it seems to influence how much eye contact children make with the characters on the boxes.
But that sonny is cuckoo for eye contact and his eyes say it all buy me kid.