You've already been manipulated today. In Part 2 of the "Who's Running Your Life?" trilogy, Carlos Siqueira (Carlos Inspire) uses 20+ years on the selling side of the table, and over $1B in revenue helped generated for Fortune 50 companies, to expose the six persuasion levers pulled on you every day.
Every lever comes with the study behind it: Ellen Langer's 1978 "because" copy-machine experiment, Tversky and Kahneman's rigged wheel of fortune, Freedman and Fraser's foot-in-the-door yard signs, Worchel's cookie jars, the restaurant mint tipping study, and Cialdini's hotel towel experiment. Then Carlos shows why you can't rely on spotting liars (a 2006 meta-analysis put human accuracy at 54%) and gives you a three-move defense protocol.
In this episode:
- The difference between persuasion and manipulation
- The six levers: because, the anchor, the small yes, scarcity, the gift, and everybody else
- Why reading faces fails, and why reading levers works
- The defense protocol: name it, the 24-hour rule, and flipping the question
- The one test for anyone selling you anything
Sources mentioned: Langer, Blank & Chanowitz (1978). Tversky & Kahneman (1974). Freedman & Fraser (1966). Worchel, Lee & Adewole (1975). Strohmetz et al. (2002). Goldstein, Cialdini & Griskevicius (2008). Bond & DePaulo (2006). Lieberman et al. (2007).
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