Great ideas alone don't cause progress; it is the spreading of those ideas that does. -- (Teeny & Petty, 2017) A couple years ago, I wrote a post about my Master’s Thesis; now, however, that …
Convince Yourself by Convincing Others
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. -- Aesop If you've ever used social media, you have probably tried to change someone's opinion on something--and probably done so in vain. Facebook …
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Questioning Our Beliefs
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. -- Sir Francis Bacon If humans could answer one question to solve the world’s …
How Can Eye Contact Protect You?
Eye contact is a dangerous, dangerous thing. But lovely. Oh, so lovely. – Hazel Hira Ozbek One of my favorite things about grad school? I can tell people that I literally study persuasion for a …
Persuaded to Read Again
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive. -- Demetri Martin It’s been a little over a week since my return to the US, and let’s just say the Amazon I am …
Peruvian Persuasion
Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta I’m back, baby. After two weeks in Peru, wading through a city of stray but domesticated cats, believing we …