How can you motivate children? Many parents and teachers despair of this question again and again in everyday life. If you take a look at the relevant advice literature, you [...]
There are only a few psychological influencing techniques that unfold their power with a single phrase or a small follow-up sentence. One of them is the "This Is My Only [...]
Benjamin Franklin not only entered the history books as one of the founding fathers of the USA, but is also mentioned in many psychology textbooks. His ingeniously simple method of [...]
Can Donald Trump's success (partly) be explained by the psychological Mere Exposure Effect? Will there be more Donald Trumps in the future? Or can we protect ourselves against this unconscious [...]
When we get to know somebody who has a somewhat similar personality we immediately feel a connection to this person. Unfortunately this can be used to influence us... [...]
When we get to know somebody who has a somewhat similar personality we immediately feel a connection to this person. Unfortunately this can be used to influence us... [...]
When we get to know somebody who has a somewhat similar personality we immediately feel a connection to this person. Unfortunately this can be used to influence us... [...]
If we get to know that somebody shares his name with us, we tend to help this person. Especially if it's a unusual name. Of course this can be used [...]
At the beginning of the 70s social psychologist Henri Tajfel could show, that even minimal similarities can lead to preference for in-group members and/or discrimination against out-group members... (minimal group [...]
Sometimes situations turn out to be much worse than we initially thought. Nevertheless, we often do not pull back. Unfortunately, this human behavior can be exploited using the low-ball technique. [...]
