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/^t/Apart from silly cartoons, violent films and newspaper articles full of burtragous gossips, children and adults might be affected by trashy commercials, deluding themselves that everything may be effortlessly accessible and easy to achieve, which in reality causes superfluous and needless disenchantment and embitterment. Many techniques used in advertising are psychologically motivated and appeal to basic human instincts, like greed, vanity or fear, persuading people what they should buy, how should they live and behave.