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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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3 hacks for psychological selling

Sales and Marketing Management

Cialdini is bright and vital as he presents himself. After lunch, Cialdini made a presentation on the research from “Pre-Suasion” and shed new light on his best-seller from 30 years ago. What conference room are we in today?” And if you think every greeting you make is perfect, check yourself. Monitor every word. Back to Bob.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

This is something not seen in very young children but then typically develops and becomes observable and testable by psychology graduate students who have done innumerable studies on it. Then, they had one of two different experimental setups presented to the crows.

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3 Skills for Influencing the Customer’s Thinking

Sales and Marketing Management

His work, published in Applied Cognitive Psychology, shows that “the use of overly complex words leads to lower evaluations of a text’s author.” Risk is present in all buying decisions. This tendency to expect the best is what Karen Cerulo, professor of psychology at Rutgers University, calls “positive asymmetry.”

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3 hacks for psychological selling

Sales and Marketing Management

Cialdini is bright and vital as he presents himself. After lunch, Cialdini made a presentation on the research from “Pre-Suasion” and shed new light on his best-seller from 30 years ago. What conference room are we in today?” And if you think every greeting you make is perfect, check yourself. Monitor every word. Back to Bob.

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How to Stop Sales Anxiety from Crushing Your Success

SalesFuel

Significantly, Psychology Compass cites a survey showing 30% of adults strongly fear failure, and this number is higher for millennials. Anxiety is considered future-oriented and longer lasting, while fear is of the present and a relatively short-term response.

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Make Your Content Impossible to Ignore

Sales and Marketing Management

A psychological concept called the “Forgetting Curve” suggests that people lose information over time when they make no effort to retain it. The skilled presenter knows how to communicate information at Point A, so it creates a future intention at Point B and motivates their audience’s decisions based on that intention.

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