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The Jordan Harbinger Show

774: Jonah Berger | The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jonah Berger joins us to discuss how understanding social influence helps us exercise more control over our own behavior and make informed decisions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Special thanks to Peloton for sponsoring this episode of the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:04.5

Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:07.5

You know, we love to see ourselves in the special snowflakes,

0:09.9

but in a working class context, we're being similar, it's more okay.

0:12.9

We like being similar to our friends,

0:14.7

but I wouldn't want to be similar to the family members that they love and care about.

0:22.3

Welcome to the show.

0:23.3

I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:24.6

On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills

0:28.1

of the world's most fascinating people.

0:30.0

If you're new to the show, we have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game.

0:34.5

Astronauts, entrepreneurs, spies, psychologists,

0:37.5

even the occasional arm's dealer and neuroscientist,

0:40.3

and each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical advice that you can use to build a deeper

0:45.7

understanding of how the world works and become a better critical thinker.

0:49.5

Today on the show, Jonah Berger is a professor at the Wharton School of Business,

0:53.3

one of the top schools in the nation.

0:55.0

He's an expert on word-of-mouth, viral marketing, social influence,

0:58.4

and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

1:01.6

Today, we'll discover that humans have an anti-influence and anti-persuasion system.

1:06.5

Of course, we'll also learn how to work around this, hopefully for good.

1:10.2

This episode centers around persuasion, especially as used in marketing and influence campaigns.

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