Persuasive
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And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more
persuasive
value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.
People use these cues to determine things like how
persuasive
someone is, how likable, how engaging, how trustworthy.
But if robots can be engaging, if we like to cooperate with robots, if robots are persuasive, maybe a robot can help you maintain a diet and exercise program, maybe they can help you manage your weight.
Or to give you another example: What about a piece of
persuasive
technology that convinces Muslim women to wear their headscarves?
And speaking of design, you'll notice that I already broadened the discussion, because it's not just
persuasive
technology that we're talking about here, it's any piece of design that we put out here in the world.
And in the same way that we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade: whatever we do or refrain from doing, whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the world, has a
persuasive
component.
And how does that apply, not just to
persuasive
technology, but to everything you design?
Something very easy, yet creative and
persuasive.
I disagree, and I think that it is equally a tool that humans use to enforce and encode our social and moral preferences and prejudices about status and power, which is why plutocrats like me have always needed to find
persuasive
stories to tell everyone else about why our relative positions are morally righteous and good for everyone: like, we are indispensable, the job creators, and you are not; like, tax cuts for us create growth, but investments in you will balloon our debt and bankrupt our great country; that we matter; that you don't.
Data from psychologists and sociologists are quite
persuasive
here.
I think we have the
persuasive
numbers, the data, to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.
Statistics are
persuasive.
Aristotle focused on oration, though, and he described three types of
persuasive
speech.
According to Aristotle, there are three
persuasive
appeals: ethos, logos, and pathos.
Cults also demand obedience to human leaders who tend to be highly
persuasive
people with authoritarian and narcissistic streaks motivated by money, sex, power, or all three.
And the challenge that comes from that is we need to find a new way to narrate globalization to those people, to recognize that for those people who have not necessarily been to university, who haven't necessarily grown up with the Internet, that don't get opportunities to travel, they may be unpersuaded by the narrative that we find
persuasive
in our often liberal bubbles.
So we conducted a study where we recruited liberals to a study where they were supposed to write a
persuasive
essay that would be compelling to a conservative in support of same-sex marriage.
And when we studied conservatives and had them make
persuasive
arguments in support of making English the official language of the US, a classically conservative political position, we found that they weren't much better at this. 59 percent of them made arguments in terms of one of the more conservative moral values, and just eight percent invoked a liberal moral value, even though they were supposed to be targeting liberals for persuasion.
If that
persuasive
appeal that you're making to your Republican uncle means that he doesn't just have to change his view, he's got to change his underlying values, too, that's not going to go very far.
If you want to move liberals to the right on conservative policy issues like military spending and making English the official language of the US, you're going to be more
persuasive
if you tie those conservative policy issues to liberal moral values like equality and fairness.
That's probably not going to be too
persuasive
to you.
And there's a whole bunch of
persuasive
techniques that I learned in college at a lab called the
Persuasive
Technology Lab to get people's attention.
There is no
persuasive
theoretical argument for why this should happen, OK.
In terms of dark matter, I said that we don't have any, you know, really
persuasive
argument for dark energy.
I said, "Well, it's so persuasive, because the purpose of that sign is to get you into the garage, and since most people are so suspicious of garages, and know that they're going to be ripped off, they use the word 'reliable.'
He believes the mobile phone, by being location-specific, contextual, timely and immediate, is simply the greatest
persuasive
technology device ever invented.
And so half of the people in our study used a shorter robot, half of the people in our study used a taller robot and we actually found that the exact same person who has the exact same body and says the exact same things as someone, is more
persuasive
and perceived as being more credible if they're in a taller robot form.
The less interesting second couple at least provides recognizable human behavior: Keith Andes, whose character is kind of a Neanderthal by today's standards, nevertheless is smooth and
persuasive
as Stanwyck's (much younger, one presumes) brother, and Marilyn Monroe, as his girlfriend, is natural and unaffected.
The director Godfrey Reggio must be a very charming and
persuasive
man for this dreadfully botched project to have seen the light of day.
Nixon is a
persuasive
and gifted performer but is given no chance by the script to embody the down-to-earth and streetwise Arcade.
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