How To Persuade Others
Are you persuaded by logic or by emotions? You may want to say that you use reason and logic to make decisions, but the truth is that most of us are swayed by our emotions more than our logic.
For example, I used to smoke while I worked in hospitals, and I watched patients suffering from their smoking in many different ways. Logically I knew smoking was bad for me. Logically I knew that smoking was hurting me in many different ways. But, when I met my co-workers for a cigarette, I felt good and accepted, and my emotions always won over. It wasn’t until I stopped feeling good about smoking that I actually quit.
That’s just one example. I can think of many more, as I’m sure you can.
To persuade someone, start by listening. You 'll discover more about how others feel and how you could shift that, if you take the time to listen rather than assume you know. You 'll also find that other people are more responsive to your point of view once they feel they 've been heard. - Tat
Using Emotions To Persuade Others
So, if YOU are persuaded by your emotions, then it stands to reason that most other people are too, and you can use that to your advantage when you need to try and persuade someone to do something. It is a much better tactic than trying to convince them through logic alone.
Your reasons for trying to persuade someone need to be made clear. e.g. I love you and don 't want you to die a horrible death from smoking. - Phil
Two of the best ways to
Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist, argued that there were three ingredients needed to effectively persuade those around you; ethos, pathos, and logos.
To convince someone they have to have changed their beliefs based on evidence or an argument. However in order to persuade someone, a person must urge them to do something or believe something, but once they do go along with it they still don’t believe it to be the best thing. Meaning that the person wasn’t convinced that the other person was right.
In order to do that we must first come together as one and use only one voice. It is hard to persuade an audience when the rhetors have many different opinions and the subject or issues. For example, what if a group of students start a petition to change the food in the cafeteria? These students would have to come together and figure out how to persuade their student body audience go sign the petition. This might be hard if everyone has a different opinion on what they food they want in the cafeteria. Everyone cannot persuade one audience with different
“As we explore persuasion, we can divide the persuasive communication into three parts: the communicator, the message, and the audience. First, we will deal with what characteristics of persuaders make people more likely to be persuaded. Next, we will think about characteristics of the message that lead people to change. Finally, we will explore what characteristics of the audience can lead them to be persuaded.” (Feenstra, 2011, p. 88) For your assignment this week, provide an in-depth analysis of the three parts of persuasion. Please reference the bullet points below to complete your assignment.
Persuading someone could be hard, especially if they are close minded. I know that when persuading someone, I have to know the person whom I am trying to persuade because people are persuaded differently. If I end up not knowing the person, I usually tend to lean toward ethos or pathos. Most people are connected with their emotional side, which is what mode of persuasion I usually use anyways. When I want something and I ask my mom for whatever it is I want. I start off by saying on how it will make my life better, this is the logos mode of persuasion, and seven times out of ten it works because I know who i'm trying to persuade. As I said before if you are trying to persuade someone you have to know who you are talking to. You
There are a plethora of controversial topics in the world today. Each issue has multiple sides that are trying to influence people's thoughts and gain their support. “Oil to Die For” and “Climate Change Debate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” are trying to do just that. Persuasion is an art, an art that is even more powerful influence with today's electronically based society. However, some sources are far more persuasive than others.
Depending on the way that speaker presents themselves, they can achieve persuasion when they can establish a strong “personal character... [that] make[s] us think
The first essential of persuasion involves the structure of the argument being posed by one who is trying to provoke others to action. In order to convince someone of a new argument, idea or moral, one must use the proper methods: logos, ethos and pathos. According to Hauser, “The method
Persuasion, like painting which requires sundry techniques in brushstroke and application, is a skill involving numerous methods, including emotional appeals, logical appeals, or a mixture of both. However, as thinking necessitates more work than feeling, many devices of persuasion manipulate their primary selling points to appeal to one’s emotions. Yet, these emotional appeals may or may not qualify as a legitimate form of persuasion. With the object of persuasion being to convince another, it is reasonable to use appeals to emotion to convince one’s audience; a robust argument contains complementary elements of reason and emotion. However, emotional appeals reach a point of illegitimacy when harm is intentionally caused and reality is
Great, so this old dead guy says there are 3 routes you can take to persuade someone? How do you use it? Copywriters all have their own take
There is little evidence that persuasion can be effective because subjects do not integrate the information into their own belief system. The experiment was designed to test the relative importance of attribution versus persuasive manipulations by comparing persuasion treatment with an attribution treatment. The persuasion techniques were designed to be maximally effective by using a credible source delivering a repeated message stating the benefits of change. The attribution techniques were designed to be maximally
2. Reasoning with Emotions: This involves using emotions to promote thinking and cognitive activity. Emotions help prioritize what we pay attention and react to; we respond emotionally to things that grab our attention.
Emotions. Emotions are chemicals in your brain that make you “feel.” Emotions are powerful. No matter how hard people try to suppress them, they can control them. In arguments, persuasive, or advertisements emotions could be the deciding factor in someone's choice of preference, weather that be stance on a subject or deciding to buy something. Most say that emotion should never go into an argument, and that is true. nobody should never put your feelings in an argument or essay, it’s very unprofessional. But using the emotions of the audience instead can boost the argument or make someone want to buy something. Emotional manipulation can overall be more useful than hard evidence because emotions don’t need evidence, it could propel something that shouldn't have gotten far, and they can bring down something that should have gone much farther.
For example, many people agree that shoplifting is wrong, because the effects from stealing from another cause more suffering than pleasure for all involved. Persuasion can be used to try and reason with the potential shoplifter so they change their mind and decide not to steal. However, persuasion
In my personal life, if I ever want to convince someone to do what I desire, I always lay out how it would benefit them. When I want my friends to accompany me to places that they have no desire to go to, I try to illustrate the