Angel’s Reviews > Influence: Science and Practice > Status Update

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.