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The Godfather of Influence, Dr. Robert Cialdini

The Science of Success

CHAPTER

The Power of Persuasion

The trick that palm readers use, but it's now something that is available to communicators to move us in various directions. We have to be very careful when we encounter a message, not simply to look inside the message for evidence of the persuasive strategies of the communicator. We must ask ourselves, what happened just before I received that message? A study done of an online furniture store that specialized in Sophos found people who saw clouds rated comfort as more important in buying a sofa than before.

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