Have FUN with the content this month...
This Week: Level #4: Innovation-Power of Persuasion
This week we'll explore tried-and-true and NEW creative breakthroughs on how to to persuade and influence people.
Below is some FUN pre-course work and your next workbook.
Fascinating Articles & Research on Persuasion & Breakthrough
5 Fascinating Experiments from the World of Psychology & Persuasion
In this article published you'll discover, "Much of what you know about human behavior and persuasion is wrong."
"You believe you’re in control of your own behavior. Yet a skilled persuader could persuade you to not only positive goals — like donating to charity — but also unthinkably negative acts, including stealing, lying, and even killing."
Click here to read the article! Which fun persuasion fact did you find most interesting?
How To Tell If A Job Candidate Is Lying In The Interview
Dartmouth College did a study called, "The roles of information deficits and identity threat in the prevalence of misperceptions."
In this study the researchers asked, "Why do so many Americans hold misperceptions?"
They specifically look at two persuasion factors that contribute to the prevalence of your beliefs.
Psychological Persuasion Techniques (That work)
In this easy read, you'll learn more secrets to persuading people.
Author Kendra Cherry explains how "persuasion is not just something that is useful to marketers and salesmen, however. Learning how to utilize these techniques in daily life can help you become a better negotiator and make it more likely that you will get what you want, whether you are trying to convince your toddler to eat her vegetables or persuade your boss to give you that raise."
How the Norm of Reciprocity Works
In this article explores what's happening when you somehow feel obliged to say yes to someone who has down something for you first.
You'll explore examples of reciprocity in action, you'll get an explanation of what's happening, how it ties into persuasion, and what, if anything, can you do to resist the reciprocity effect?
To Be More Persuasive... Repeat Yourself
According to this super short article by the Association of Psychological Science, "The philosopher Plato wrote that there is no harm in repeating a good thing. Even better, a new study finds that repeating key points during your next meeting is a good way to sway colleagues’ decisions."
This article explores the persuasive power of how repeating specific information during a discussion could be the simple strategy you did you change someone's mind.
How the Norm of Reciprocity Works
This website is not pretty and you need to scan down a bit to find some cool stuff, but there are some studies here about how NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, can be used to spell words correctly more often, how to change a behavior, and how to be more successful.