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How To BUILD INFLUENCE & Understand The Psychology of Persuasion w/ Robert Cialdini, Ph.D EP 1164

The School of Greatness

CHAPTER

The Principle of Social Proof

Sononiman: I was always a curious, a te nager and young man about it. How did this work like that? How did people get me to say yes to things i wasn't really interested in? And i want to buy this? I didn't want this. It must be the way they presented it, the psychology of it. The next principle is social proof. Can you explain more of this concept of social proof? Sononiman: When i'm uncertain about what to do, i use the responses other people, the choices of other people, to steer me in that direction. "I hope everyone's taking nouse as well, like me," he says.

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