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Showing posts with label Persuasion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Persuasion. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2025

On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4

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Salvi, F., Ribeiro, M. H., Gallotti, R., & West, R. (2025). Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02194-6 Abstract ...
Monday, October 14, 2024

This AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions

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Helena Kudiabor Nature.com Originally posted 12 Sept 24 Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) could be a valuable tool in...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Stolen elections: How conspiracy beliefs during the 2020 American presidential elections changed over time

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Wang, H., & Van Prooijen, J. (2022). Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3996 Abstract Conspiracy beliefs have bee...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Lies and bullshit: The negative effects of misinformation grow stronger over time

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Petrocelli, J. V., Seta, C. E., & Seta, J. J. (2023).  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(2), 409–418.  https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4043 A...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

How Hedges Impact Persuasion

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Oba, Demi and Berger, Jonah A. (July 23, 2022).  Abstract Communicators often hedge. Salespeople say that a product is probably the best, re...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Hidden wisdom or pseudo-profound bullshit? The effect of speaker admirability

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Kara-Yakoubian, et al. (2021, October 28). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tpnkw Abstract How do people reason in response to ambiguous mess...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Checked by reality, some QAnon supporters seek a way out

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David Klepper Associated Press Originally posted 28 January 21 Here are two excerpts: It's not clear exactly how many people believe som...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

The effectiveness of moral messages on public health behavioral intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic

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J. Everett, C. Colombatta, & others PsyArXiv PrePrints Originally posted 20 March 20 Abstrac With the COVID-19 pandemic threateni...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Influencing the physiology and decisions of groups: Physiological linkage during group decision-making

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Thorson, K. R., and others. (2020). Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219890909 Abstract Man...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Strength of conviction won’t help to persuade when people disagree

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Pressor ucl.ac.uk Originally poste 16 Dec 19 The brain scanning study, published in Nature Neuroscience, reveals a new type of confirmat...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Neuroscientific evidence in the courtroom: a review.

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Aono, D., Yaffe, G. & Kober, H. Cogn. Research 4, 40 ( 2019) doi:10.1186/s41235-019-0179-y Abstract The use of neuroscience in the...
Friday, May 31, 2019

The Ethics of Smart Devices That Analyze How We Speak

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Trevor Cox Harvard Business Review Originally posted May 20, 2019 Here is an excerpt: But what happens when machines start analyzing h...
Monday, May 20, 2019

How Drug Companies Helped Shape a Shifting Biological View of Mental Ilness

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Terry Gross NPR Health Shots Originally posted May 2, 2019 Here are two excerpts: On why the antidepressant market is now at a standst...
Friday, April 12, 2019

It’s Not Enough to Be Right—You Also Have to Be Kind

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Ryan Holiday www.medium.com Originally posted on March 20, 2019 Here is an excerpt: Reason is easy. Being clever is easy. Humiliating ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation

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Robert Noggle aeon.co Originally published August 1, 2018 Here is an excerpt: It appears, then, that whether an influence is manipulat...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

What Could Be Wrong with a Little ‘Moral Clarity’?

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Frank Guan The New York Times Magazine Originally posted January 2, 2019 If, in politics, words are weapons, they often prove themselves...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

When Tech Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

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Nicholas Thompson www.wired.com Originally published October 4, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Hacking a Human NT: Explain what it means t...
Friday, July 20, 2018

How to Look Away

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Megan Garber The Atlantic Originally published June 20, 2018 Here is an excerpt: It is a dynamic—the democratic alchemy that converts ...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

The Tech Industry’s War on Kids

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Richard Freed Medium.com Originally published March 12, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Fogg speaks openly of the ability to use smartphones ...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Thinking about the social cost of technology

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Natasha Lomas Tech Crunch Originally posted September 30, 2017 Here is an excerpt: Meanwhile, ‘users’ like my mum are left with anothe...