Monday, February 21, 2011

Getting The Psychological Knowledge On Persuasion

By Jacob Michaels


Day in and day out persuasion is all around us. Hungry? Restaurant administrators will step up to the plate to tell you to come and eat at their place. Feel like being entertained? No difficulty, new movies will ask you to come and watch them. There is so much persuasion going on all around us that it's easy to not even notice it.

The technique of trying to influence people so that they accept certain ideas or become ready to act in certain ways is known as psychology.

There are some obvious techniques that the Psychology of Persuasion utilizes. Here is a list of them:

o Create a need: when you create a need or append something additional to one that already exists, you are appealing to people's deepest wishes for love or security of self-actualization.

* Appeal to social needs: Another good persuasion technique. Here the request is to your prospect becoming popular or famous or like other people. When TV commercials feature famous people endorsing a product, the concept is that the average viewer will feel like being that famous person by buying that product. TV commercials have made excellent use of the psychology of persuasion.

* Applying loaded words or images: This means that very positive phrases are used to endorese certain products or services.

These specific techniques are utilized in the Psychology of Persuasion in order to influence the way people think and act. The word "psychology" derived from a Greek word meaning "study of the soul." As such, there is a branch of this study that entails pleasure and pain. What to seek and what to avoid can be strong forces of motivation. This can lead to logical conclusions where there appears to be an concurrence between those who persuade and those who are persuaded.

This is one way of leading people to an experience of general expectations. If there is a commonality in this, then people can be led to be willing to buy things they desire and salespeople can make more sales.

This kind of psychology is also used as a main persuasion technique by politicians, corporate bosses, and even ministers of different churches. Even non-experts can appreciate how applying these techniques are all in the realm of what is practical and even reasonable.

Our everyday experiences are not immune to persuasion. When we are confronted with a kind of persuasion, we react in certain predicted ways. Because this happens, it is likely to foretell how certain people will react to certain stimuli in order to go for certain ideas or start acting in a certain way. The difficulty is that deceitful people can also employ these techniques. But if you understand the psychology of persuasion well enough, you can always tell whether someone is trying to pull the wool over your eyes or not.




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