Rational Persuasion

We are taught that listening thoughtfully and speaking helpfully are essential social skills for interacting with our fellow humans. Indeed, they are important communication tools; yet, they are actually part of the important social skill of persuasion. This is the key communication skill needed to achieve social goals because with persuasion, empathy occurs, reason reigns, and conflict is avoided.

‘Critically evaluate how persuasion and influence can be used in your field of vocational interest. This can relate to how they are used within your field or in order to gain a place in your field. ‘

In the featured article “The Science of Persuasion”, the author, Robert Cialdini talks about how to get someone to listen to you and do what you want them to do. Persuasion is the ability or power to get someone to do something that you want them to do by backing up their argument with logical facts and ideas. According to the article, there are 6 ways into initiating a response from an individual: Reciprocity, Consistency, Social Validation, Liking, Authority, and Scarcity. When we reciprocate to something, we are somehow influenced or inclined to return what we have received from others or in other words, doing a favor in return for a favor. Reciprocity is MORE than just presents and gifts. It is about the concessions that

Today, one can see the tactic of persuasion being used as a standard avenue to influence a person’s attitude or beliefs by presenting them with different messages that encourage things like using certain brand name products, vote a certain way, or where to take a vacation just to name a few. There are four types of people that include gullible people, skeptical people, firm believers, and people who are leaders who trust others as well as make others follow their ideas. Persuasion is a widespread topic of social psychology and may be done in different ways. There are two types of cognitive processes by which to persuade someone, which are the central route or the peripheral route. For this assignment I used mostly the central route approach as well as using a little of the peripheral route approach. To reinforce the peripheral route approach the use of pathos was also used during the video to play on the emotions of the watcher. This PowerPoint is effective at using the central route of persuasion, peripheral

A cult, also known as a new religious movement, is defined as an exclusive group of individuals who come together to follow a leader's extreme ideas. A cult holds three general characteristics which include: being led by a charismatic leader, has radical beliefs and rituals compared to the norm, and isolates its members from their society to protect them from “evil”. The Unification Church, short for The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, is a cult that began in 1954 and was founded by Sun Myung Moon. Moon believed Jesus appeared to him when he was a teenager and told him he was carefully chosen to continue the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. He was told that Jesus himself had begun this mission before his death,

The first essential of persuasion involves the structure of the argument being posed by one who is trying to provoke others to action. In order to convince someone of a new argument, idea or moral, one must use the proper methods: logos, ethos and pathos. According to Hauser, “The method

* Dr. Cialdini explained that commitments are more powerful when they are active; public; effortful; and viewed as internally motivated. The statement of the commentator is accurate because the motorcycle owners had made their commitment public by tattooing their commitment on their

Through her sarcastic and contemptuous tone in Persuasion, Austen portrays how many members of the upper class only cared about appearance and thought of themselves as being more attractive and overall better than everyone else. After Mr. Elliot had come to Bath and spent time with the Elliots, they could not stop talking about him. Sir Walter, while discussing the flaws in his appearance, said that “‘He did not mean to complain, however. Mr. Elliot was better to look at than most men, and he had no objection to being seen with him any where’” (Austen 93). Despite having spent a large chunk of time doing nothing but “complain[ing]” about Mr. Elliot’s appearance, Austen mockingly states that criticizing him was not his intent. Sir Walter actually thinks of Mr. Elliot as “better

Because of this The supreme court came to a conclusion that individuals can be searched not only for probable cause for example if the suspect is under suspicion of doing a crime, but also for reasonable suspicion where the suspect is thought to be taking part in

To persuade someone can be defined as convincing one to have the same outlook on something as oneself. People go about persuading one in several different ways. Persuasion can be as casual as an everyday conversation to as formal as a speech in front of millions of people. When the author states their purpose of persuasion, this is called their call to action. The call to action is usually the author’s final and last comment on their speech.

Of the many persuasive strategies and tactics discussed throughout the text, I would say that credibility would be one of the most ethical tools to use in many situations. The reason I suggest this is that, while credibility has some potential to be manipulative, it typically requires the user to actually have proven themselves worthy of the listener’s time. The shear amount of time that someone, who intends to use credibility as an unethical use of persuasion, often would deter the very idea of utilizing this method from being an option. As a communicator making use of all of the tools in their arsenal, I think the

The Central Route to persuasion occurs when the focus is on the argument or evidence and people response with positive thoughts and/or feedback. This route is motivating when people care about an issue and want to talk about it. An example would be Global warming. People use scientific

Rational persuasion - use of logical argument or factual information and evidence to influence others.

I chose the logical persuasion for my essay on religion. I did it because I did not want to use the pathos persuasion then I would have the audiences reading the paper think that I was some South Baptist Preacher talking about hell fire and brimstone, if you do not obey the rules. I believed that this paper did not need an emotional response. With an emotional response the reader may think that you are talking down to them. I did not go with ethical response because we all have different beliefs, and

According to the text , Social Psychology, “social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another”(pg. 4) this is viewed in a variety of social topics incorporating group behaviors, attitudes, conformity, obedience to authority, stereotypes and peer pressure. Outside factors can have a positive or negative affect our view of ourselves and each other. These outside factors are used to persuade and influence group behavior. Persuasion is defined as “the process by which a message induces change in beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors” (Myers, 2010, pg. 230). The principles of this process of persuasion according to researchers, Robert Cialdini and Thomas Davidson, are attractiveness and