Week of October 8
Vedantam, Shenkar. "Tie my Shoes, Please: How Persuasion Works." SHOTS NPR Health Blog. NPR.org. July 24, 2012. Web. Accessed September 26, 2012.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/07/23/157248356/tie-my-shoes-please-how-persuasion-works
Week of October 15
What is rhetoric and what does it have to do with us?http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/04/30/151711810/reclaiming-rhetoric-for-the-modern-age
Week of October 23
Is this the age of advertising?http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138115998/the-age-of-persuasion-how-marketing-ate-our-culture?tab=excerpt#excerpt
Maka Bailey :
ReplyDeleteThis is like when parents ask their children to do something outrageous like clean the whole house and then settle for a more reasonable thing like do the laundry.
Kids also use this technique by asking for something big like an X-BOX and later just ask for something small like a candy and parents think that that is better than an X-BOX so they get it.
Thanks Maka! --Kumu Becca
ReplyDeleteIn this article it talks about a guy that asked people to tie his shoes because he had serious back pains and that he could not bend down. But as he was asking people to tie his shoes no one would pay attention to him because people thought the guy was asking an unusual question which was tieing his shoes. But while that was going on there was another person who was asking people to watch her shopping cart because her husband had her car keys and was wondering around the store. So while she was asking people to watch shopping cart people thought of her" like why don't you just push it". And she was also telling the people that her shopping cart did not have wheel on and that she didn't feel like pushing the shopping cart all around. And it was a experiment to know what people would do or react.
ReplyDeleteKalelei Rogers-
ReplyDeleteI read the article, and i thought it was funny to know that you can persuade people to do stuff like that, and how easy it is to do that. I WILL use this in all the thing i want from other people know. :)
Haha! I especially like the "door-in-the-face technique" because it seems like you would end up getting your way most of the time when using that technique. I think that it was most likely that the people who agreed to tie the shoes agreed to watch the cart because they were used to getting asked a question like that. Anyway, I will be MORE than happy to try it!! :D :)
ReplyDelete-Malana