Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World

  • Simply instituting a formal feedback process can doule the likelihood that a client ahives a significant change (1) – page 40 2
  • The candidates whose views changed over time received more unfavorable evaluations (2) – page 71 4
  • Participants tended to see the politicians’ inconsistent behavior s waffling, and were less liekly to view these candidates as vote-worthy (3) – page 71 4
  • Midway through hearnig about the case, half the participants werea sked  state who they thought was guilty of the crme and to explain why…  thes subjects had a significantly more difficult time recognizing the counterevidence… they were more liekly t describe counteraevidence as supportnig his guilt… when participants were asked to consider the oppoite, this eliminated the confirmation bias (4) – page 92,96 5
  • Prediction markets are better at predicting presidetial outcomes than polls (5) – page 113 6?
  • Feeling powerful makes people focus on their own opinion and assume that other peopel’s opinions are the same (6) – page 145 8
  • One of the best predictors in a relationship is whether the husband is willing to be influenced by the wife (7) – page 147 8
  • The individuals who were in the high power plus perspective-taking group were seen to be most just… these participants were also most likely to collect enough clues from their partners to solve the mystery (8) – page 147 8
  • The intervention of the minority in-group later changed subjects views on gun control (9) – page 191 11?
  • When a minority is seen as inflexible and uncompromising, it can be seen as extreme… these members become repelled (10) – page 194 11

 

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  7. Predicting marital happiness and stability from newlywed interactions
  8. Acceleration with steering the synergetsic benefits o combining power and persepctivetaking
  9. Indirect minority infleunce: evidence fro leniency in source evlaution and coutneragrugmentation
  10. When reigidity does not fail: invidiuliation and psychologization as resitances to the diffusion of minority innovations, DIferential conitrbutions of majority and minority influence