Status Updates From Influence: Science and Prac...

On the influence of restrictions and how that increase the value of things.

On the scarcity principle.

On how the mind gets overwhelmed in the modern era due to the amount of information and how that ends up causing automatic responses.

On obedience to authority figures and the trappings of authority.

The like principle and how it influences our decision making.

On liking and disliking by association.

On compliments and the power of liking those who are similar to us.

On the social principle and Jonestown.

On how publicizing suicide tends to cause people to die more often both from related suicides or accidental deaths as part of social proof.

Social proof and the bystander effect.

On public commitments and its role in social influence.

On the consistency principle and how it influences people's behavior to remain within their own paradigms or change if they commit.

On how to defend against the reciprocity rule.

On the concession and reciprocation principles.

The reciprocity principle and how its used in politics, marketing and society.

On biological triggers in the natural world and how they also affect humans.