Weapons of Influence #5: Authority (Ep. 197)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We dive back into Robert Cialdini's "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion," to talk a bit about why it's so easy to follow the leader, even when you know you shouldn't. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: How To Subscribe To The Podcast Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini Robert Cialdini Weapons of Influence #1: Reciprocation (Ep. 186) Weapons of Influence #2: Commitment and Consistency (Ep. 189) Weapons of Influence #3: Social Proof (Ep. 193) Weapons of Influence #4: Liking (Ep. 195) Elgato Green Screen Elgato Game Capture HD60 Elgato Stream Deck AutoHotkey Spotify (iOS | Android) Podcast Addict (Android) Pocket Casts (iOS | Android) Milgram experiment Bruce Lee How to Go from Merely Good to Truly Great (Ep. 178) Catch Me If You Can (2002), on Rotten Tomatoes Catch Me If You Can, by Frank Abagnale Frank Abagnale Change My View subreddit Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. Timestamps: 0:01:41 - How to subscribe to the podcast 0:05:12 - Perceiving and being influenced by authority 0:23:34 - Exposure to conflict and finding your moral stance 0:30:53 - Being afraid of people whom you perceive as authoritative 0:34:57 - Viewing things from a position of authority 0:40:41 - Tricking people by resembling authoritative figures 0:52:34 - Conclusion If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:34.0	Martin, yeah.
0:35.0	How do you like my latest attempt to get people who listen to the audio feed
0:38.0	to watch the video feed?
0:41.0	I'm green with envy.
0:42.0	See what I did there? I'm green with envy. See what I did there?
0:44.0	I'm hilarious.
0:45.0	I don't even know what's going to be on this.
0:48.0	Like I can't make a joke about, oh look I'm in Paris or something because I literally just got it in the mail and so you haven't
0:54.0	decided yet or are you going to have the editors just put something back there you don't know
0:58.5	about? We'll see I don't know who's editing this episode. If it's me it may just be like
1:02.4	Terry Cruz's face over and over and over again, which I mean, I see no problem with that whatsoever.
1:09.0	But yes, I did just get this cool green screen. I feel like El Gato was going to get all my money because I just got their green screen. I got their capture card a while ago for getting game footage. And now they have like this little stream deck thing with,
1:24.0	actually I don't, maybe you would be interested in this,
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