What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? With the same rigorous scientific research and accessibility that made his Influence an iconic bestseller, Robert Cialdini explains how to prepare people to be receptive to a message before they experience it. Optimal persuasion is achieved only through optimal pre-suasion. In other words, to change "minds" a pre-suader must also change "states of mind."
Named a "Best Business Books of 2016" by the Financial Times, and "compelling" by The Wall Street Journal, Cialdini's Pre-Suasion draws on his extensive experience as the most cited social psychologist of our time and explains the techniques a person should implement to become a master persuader. Altering a listener's attitudes, beliefs, or experiences isn't necessary, says Cialdini—all that's required is for a communicator to redirect the audience's focus of attention before a relevant action.
From studies on advertising imagery to treating opiate addiction, from the annual letters of Berkshire Hathaway to the annals of history, Cialdini outlines the specific techniques you can use on online marketing campaigns and even effective wartime propaganda. He illustrates how the artful diversion of attention leads to successful pre-suasion and gets your targeted audience primed and ready to say, "Yes." His book is "an essential tool for anyone serious about science based business strategies...and is destined to be an instant classic. It belongs on the shelf of anyone in business, from the CEO to the newest salesperson" (Forbes).
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Publisher's Weekly
June 27, 2016
The first solo book in over three decades by psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Cialdini (Influence) is sure to be an important contribution to the fields of social psychology and behavioral economics. According to the author, the most successful persuaders prime their audiences for their message. One of his central points is that “what we present first changes the way people experience what we present to them next.” This book “identifies what savvy communicators do” and explains how general readers can do the same. Based on Cialdini’s research, decisions tend to be made based not on the factor “that counsels most wisely” but “the one that has been elevated in attention.” Topics include the best sales techniques, the problem of false confessions, the role of embedded journalists in the Iraq war, and how Warren Buffet establishes trustworthiness in his annual Berkshire Hathaway newsletter. Dense, detailed, readable, and fascinating, this book may cause the reader to wonder whether unbiased decisions are possible. Voluminous and entertaining endnotes, as well as an initial annotated summary of each chapter, increase accessibility. -
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A social psychologist considers why and how we make decisions.In his previous book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1984), Cialdini (Emeritus, Psychology and Marketing/Arizona State Univ.) aimed to help consumers "resist influence attempts employed in an undue or unwelcome way." A bestseller, that book led to requests from people "ravenously interested in learning how to harness persuasion" in business or their personal lives, which inspired this illuminating, easy-to-digest follow-up. Although aimed at persuaders, the book also gives insight to consumers about the forces that shape decision-making. Drawing on studies in psychology, business, and the social sciences, which comprise the majority of his 90-page bibliography, Cialdini makes two central arguments: persuaders must trigger in their audience associations favorable to change, and "the factor most likely to determine a person's choice in a situation is not the one that counsels most wisely" but rather "one that has been elevated in attention...at the time of the decision." The book is filled with anecdotes and punctuated by cartoons ("Doonesbury" and "Dilbert" make appearances), advertisements, and, occasionally, graphs. Although some findings seem common-sensical--to get consumers to buy French wine, play French background music before they decide--others surprised even the author. If we want people "to feel warmly toward us, we can hand them a hot drink," for example; and because the concept of weight "is linked metaphorically to the concept of seriousness," manufacturers making e-readers as light as possible may "lessen the seeming value of the presented material" and "the perceived intellectual depth of its author." Late in the book, Cialdini confronts the ethics of his entire enterprise: is he, in fact, "doing more harm than good" by imparting means of tricking consumers? Unethical business practices eventually undermine an organization by creating a corrosive "culture of dishonesty," he asserts; but he concedes that his "argument against duplicity" may not convince profit-hungry business leaders. An accessible, well-researched inquiry into how minds get changed. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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August 1, 2016
A social psychologist considers why and how we make decisions.In his previous book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1984), Cialdini (Emeritus, Psychology and Marketing/Arizona State Univ.) aimed to help consumers resist influence attempts employed in an undue or unwelcome way. A bestseller, that book led to requests from people ravenously interested in learning how to harness persuasion in business or their personal lives, which inspired this illuminating, easy-to-digest follow-up. Although aimed at persuaders, the book also gives insight to consumers about the forces that shape decision-making. Drawing on studies in psychology, business, and the social sciences, which comprise the majority of his 90-page bibliography, Cialdini makes two central arguments: persuaders must trigger in their audience associations favorable to change, and the factor most likely to determine a persons choice in a situation is not the one that counsels most wisely but rather one that has been elevated in attentionat the time of the decision. The book is filled with anecdotes and punctuated by cartoons (Doonesbury and Dilbert make appearances), advertisements, and, occasionally, graphs. Although some findings seem common-sensicalto get consumers to buy French wine, play French background music before they decideothers surprised even the author. If we want people to feel warmly toward us, we can hand them a hot drink, for example; and because the concept of weight is linked metaphorically to the concept of seriousness, manufacturers making e-readers as light as possible may lessen the seeming value of the presented material and the perceived intellectual depth of its author. Late in the book, Cialdini confronts the ethics of his entire enterprise: is he, in fact, doing more harm than good by imparting means of tricking consumers? Unethical business practices eventually undermine an organization by creating a corrosive culture of dishonesty," he asserts; but he concedes that his argument against duplicity may not convince profit-hungry business leaders. An accessible, well-researched inquiry into how minds get changed.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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