Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · chapter 1 · id influence-c1-06-compliance-professionals-syste
“Compliance professionals systematically exploit psychological shortcuts ('weapons of influence') because modern life is too complex for people to fully analyze every decision, forcing reliance on cognitive heuristics.”
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Tversky & Kahneman (1974), Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, Science 185(4157)DOI registry: valid
People rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations.
Bargh & Chartrand (1999), The Unbearable Automaticity of Being, Psychological Review 106(3)DOI registry: valid
Most of a person's everyday life is determined not by their conscious intentions and deliberate choices but by mental processes put into motion by features of the environment.
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