Influence

thirteen thousand dollars. It appears, then, that even proper, official censorship in a courtroom setting creates problems for t ...

the fact that the news carrying the scarcity of information was itself scarce made it especially persuasive.^13 OPTIMAL CONDITIO ...

cause of political turmoil and violence. Perhaps the most prominent proponent of this argument is James C. Davies, who states th ...

public schools, blacks were the targets of 530 acts of violence (direct intimidation of black children and parents, bombings, an ...

revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were an aberration; now we are back to fatal norm ...

cookies had to be given away to other raters to supply the demand for cookies in the study. To another set of participants, it w ...

fins and snapping mouths competing for the food. At this point, the fishermen save time and money by dropping unbaited lines int ...

generated the spectacular sales price rather than the blockbuster quality of the movie itself? Some comments from the auction pa ...

competition, the blood comes up, the focus narrows, and emotions rise. As this visceral current advances, the cognitive, rationa ...

pressures will give us a good indication of how much we would want to pay for it—the less available it is, the more valuable to ...

Often the earlier arrival, inadvertently stoking the sense of rivalry, would assert his right to primary consideration. “Just a ...

As soon as we feel the tide of emotional arousal that flows from scarcity influences, we should use that rise in arousal as a si ...

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Epilogue INSTANT INFLUENCE Primitive Consent for an Automatic Age Every day in every way, I’m getting better. —EMILE COUE Every ...

unusual and controversial. As soon as Zappa had been introduced and seated, the following exchange occurred: PINE: I guess your ...

whether to say yes or no to a requester, it is clear that we frequently pay attention to but one piece of the relevant informati ...

quickly; we contact more people and have shorter relationships with them; in the supermarket, car showroom, and shopping mall, w ...

in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly with the intricacy and richne ...

cient strategy is hardly our antagonist but rather must be considered a cooperating partner. The story becomes quite different, ...

NOTES CHAPTER 1 (PAGES 1–16) Honest, this animal researcher’s name is Fox. See his 1974 mono- graph for a complete description ...