Showing posts with label emotional intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotional intelligence. Show all posts

Susceptible to Aggressive Persuasion - When and Why?


What are the main psychological forces that explain when and why we are likely to be persuaded by others? Here’s what the science shows:

In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review 
(Persuasion Depends Mostly on the Audience, 6.2.15), 
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and a faculty member at Columbia University, explores how persuasion is emotional first and rational second. Effective persuasion, he tells us, highlights the irrationality of human thinking; “we may be living in a data-driven world, but that does not make people more logical.” 

Where the Wild Things Are...

Chess is a Wild game I've only been playing for a short time, but I've gained enough understanding to realize that the angles of ...