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6: Persuasion

Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind

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The Positives of Persuasion

In a group, we are different to being individuals. We can be persuaded by seeing other people doing things that gives us license to behave in that way and so on. However, I did use persuasion in a good way because I did some work with donations charity. So you seed your audiences with catalas? That would be handy. Yes, yes. The reason is because when we're all together like that, everything's contagious. In terms of how enthusiastic we are, the emotions we're feeling, whether we find something interesting, we all catch it from one another. And this was based on other researchers, similar ideas. One of those did very, very well compared to the other

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