Michael Loh
Introduction to Social Influence, Persuasion, Compliance & Propaganda. This portion of the Working Psychology website offers a brief introduction to a big topic: social influence, the modern, scientific study of persuasion, compliance, propaganda, "brainwashing," and the ethics that surround these issues. Although these topics aren't always simple (it is, after all, science), I've done my best to make this introduction interesting. Since Aristotle recorded his principles of persuasion in Rhetoric, humans have attempted to define and refine the principles of successful influence. Persuasion has been studied as an art for most of human history. How to Detect Lies - body language, reactions, speech patterns.
Interesting Info -> Lying Index -> How to Detect Lies Become a Human Lie Detector (Part 1) Warning: sometimes ignorance is bliss.
After gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you. The following deception detection techniques are used by police, forensic psychologists, security experts and other investigators. Introduction to Detecting Lies: This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions. This is just a basic run down of physical (body language) gestures and verbal cues that may indicate someone is being untruthful. If you got here from somewhere else, be sure to check out our Lie Detection index page for more info including new research in the field of forensic psychology.
Signs of Deception: Body Language of Lies: • A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact. Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog. The Top 10 Psychology Studies of 2010. The end of 2010 fast approaches, and I'm thrilled to have been asked by the editors of Psychology Today to write about the Top 10 psychology studies of the year.
I've focused on studies that I personally feel stand out, not only as examples of great science, but even more importantly, as examples of how the science of psychology can improve our lives. Each study has a clear "take home" message, offering the reader an insight or a simple strategy they can use to reach their goals , strengthen their relationships, make better decisions, or become happier.
If you extract the wisdom from these ten studies and apply them in your own life, 2011 just might be a very good year. 1) How to Break Bad Habits If you are trying to stop smoking , swearing, or chewing your nails, you have probably tried the strategy of distracting yourself - taking your mind off whatever it is you are trying not to do - to break the habit. J. 2) How to Make Everything Seem Easier J. Emotional intelligence. Short Myers-Briggs Test. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Personality types. 2nd Amendment - Guns. NASA Images. Emotional intelligence. Martin Luther King. Newtown, Conn., School Shootings (Adam Lanza) Poll Shows School Shooting Sways Views on Guns. As President Obama tries to persuade a reluctant Congress to pass new gun laws, the poll found that a majority of Americans — 54 percent — think gun control laws should be tightened, up markedly from a CBS News poll last April that found that only 39 percent backed stricter laws.
The rise in support for stricter gun laws stretched across political lines, including an 18-point increase among Republicans. Dreamliner’s Promise Keeps Airline CEOs Wedded to Troubled Plane. Airlines that bought Boeing Co.
(BA)’s 787 Dreamliner for its long range and industry-leading fuel savings are rallying behind the grounded plane whose fate is bound up with their own. From AMR Corp. (AAMRQ)’s American Airlines to lessor CIT Group Inc. (CIT) and billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., customers say they expect a fix for the battery faults keeping the world’s most technologically advanced jet on tarmacs instead of in the skies.
The 787 has about 800 unfilled orders. At stake are the airlines’ bets on a plane whose list price starts at about $207 million. “These are 30-year decisions airlines are making, and they studied it long and hard before buying,” Michael Derchin, an analyst at CRT Capital Group in Stamford, Connecticut, said in a telephone interview. The U.S. An employee works on the assembly of Boeing Co.' An employee works on the assembly of Boeing Co.' Close. The Placebo Phenomenon — harvardmagazine. Two weeks into Ted Kaptchuk’s first randomized clinical drug trial, nearly a third of his 270 subjects complained of awful side effects.
All the patients had joined the study hoping to alleviate severe arm pain: carpal tunnel, tendinitis, chronic pain in the elbow, shoulder, wrist. In one part of the study, half the subjects received pain-reducing pills; the others were offered acupuncture treatments.