persuasion
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Jane Austen Purists Need to Get Off Their High Horse, Netflix’s Persuasion Is a Great Adaptation
It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that any Jane Austen adaptation must be in want of haters. The latest to come under fire is Netflix’s take on Persuasion. You would think Dakota Johnson had burned a copy of book the way Jane Austen purists have reacted to her performance as Anne Elliot. I, like so many…
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How To Be More Persuasive, According To Science
Whether it’s getting your partner to do more housework or making your colleagues back your latest idea, we all end up spending a considerable amount of time trying to persuade or even manipulate others. So can science offer any clever tricks to get people to do what we want, without resorting to bullying them? It’s…
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Quarter Of A Group Can Change Everyone’s Behaviour
In a very simple version of the “tipping point” theory, a new paper says that in groups of anywhere from 100 to 100,000, just 25 to 31 per cent of the group can set a new behavioural norm for the whole group. This finding is drawn from just one study using online participants, so its…
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How To Talk About Hurricanes With Climate Change Deniers
The Earth is getting warmer. That’s a fact. And as the Earth gets warmer, we expect to see larger and stronger hurricanes. Also a fact. But there are folks denying these facts, even to the point of blaming the liberal media for the fact that hurricanes are in the news.