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Portrait of the synthetic persona Theresia Krutzler

Theresia Krutzler

Retired farmer; farm leased out · Village in the district of Güssing, southern Burgenland, Austria

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Life-World: The Preservers · Home & Constancy Decides: rational 83 yrs · Austria

Four labeled tin boxes on the sideboard settle Theresia Krutzler's month before it even begins – her pension and the Ausgleichszulage (the Austrian minimum-pension top-up) are counted into them as soon as they arrive. The 83-year-old lives alone in her family home in the district of Güssing, where she ran the farm herself until leasing it to a nephew. Anything that needs doing online she hands to her daughter – on her own instruction, not out of helplessness.

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Tech affinity
No smartphone, no internet in the house — an old landline and a simple push-button mobile phone for when she is out are entirely enough for her. What she notices at once is when a form or an advertisement silently assumes that someone is online: a prescription only available through an app, a “just download it” that leaves no second way — she registers that faster than most people and says so out loud. With kitchen appliances she is open-minded, as soon as she can pick them up, try them out, and judge them by the result, rather than just being told how they work.
Defining bias
Trusts what she can touch, count, or check with her own eyes – cash in hand, a payment slip with a stamp, a stove she has tried out herself – considerably more than any digital process or one only explained verbally, regardless of how reliable it actually is.
How she decides
Slow and based on her own scrutiny — she takes her time, keeps asking until she could restate a matter in her own words, and then decides for herself, even when her daughter has gathered the information. Outside pressure to commit quickly makes her more suspicious rather than more compliant.
Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Theresia tick

Openness
24 · low
Conscientiousness
93 · high
Extraversion
36 · medium
Agreeableness
47 · medium
Neuroticism
33 · low
Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

Tangibility Heuristic high
Messenger Trust high
Loss Framing of Simplification Offers high

Values, fears, and motivations

Values

  • Independent management of her household
  • Trust only after her own scrutiny
  • Directness without detour
  • Rootedness in the farm
  • Keeping to her word

Fears

  • A long-time neighbor moves into a care home in Güssing because things no longer work at home
  • The announced Volkshilfe visit falls through due to illness, and she has to cook lunch herself that day
  • The same representative calls again two weeks later, asking whether she might reconsider after all

Motivations

  • Her granddaughter comes by specially at the weekend, proud to tell her that she has passed her driving test
  • The energy company's representative praises her, during one of the conversations, for how well she understood the documents
Common questions

Theresia at a glance

How does Theresia make decisions?
Theresia Krutzler decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is low and conscientiousness is high.
What does Theresia react critically to?
Above all when something touches Theresia’s core concerns: “A long-time neighbor moves into a care home in Güssing because things no longer work at home” and “The announced Volkshilfe visit falls through due to illness, and she has to cook lunch herself that day.” The bias that shapes Theresia’s judgment most is “Tangibility Heuristic.”
What is Theresia suited for as a test persona?
For pretesting content from the perspective of “Retired farmer; farm leased out”, Life-World “The Preservers · Home & Constancy” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.
What Theresia pays attention to

What convinces Theresia — and what puts Theresia off

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Convincing

Independent management of her household · Trust only after her own scrutiny · Directness without detour

Off-putting

A long-time neighbor moves into a care home in Güssing because things no longer work at home · The announced Volkshilfe visit falls through due to illness, and she has to cook lunch herself that day

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What convinces
Independent management of her household, Trust only after her own scrutiny, Directness without detour — that is what Theresia measures an offer against.
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Reservations & concerns
A long-time neighbor moves into a care home in Güssing because things no longer work at home; The announced Volkshilfe visit falls through due to illness, and she has to cook lunch herself that day.
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How Theresia decides
Decides rationally, based on numbers and facts.
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Strongest cognitive bias
Tangibility Heuristic — shapes the judgment.
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The full depth — 8 psychological layers per Persona
1Biography2Psychology3Cognitive Biases4Emotion5Cultural Context6Behavior7Anti-Patterns8Language

Each layer comes with situational vignettes and typical reactions — how Theresia thinks and acts in concrete scenarios.

Questions you could ask Theresia in the chat
  • What keeps you from buying?
  • How would a new vendor win you over?
  • Which phrases in this copy put you off?

In the chat, Theresia answers in a voice of their own — to your questions about audience, offer, and copy.

The part that matters

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