It’s absolutely crucial for anybody in communication — and that could be journalists, TV, media, all of it, or marketing people — if you want to appeal to people, it’s absolutely crucial to understand what I call the reptilian hot button. If you don’t have a reptilian hot button, then you have to deal with the cortex; you have to work on price issues and stuff like that.
source: PBS
See:
http://www.kheper.net/topics/intelligence/MacLean.htm
you mean you DON’T have one???
rept…uh…*looks up and down, front and back*…a what?!