Commitment and Consistency: Hobgoblins of the Mind
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Why is personal consistency highly valued in our culture?
What is personal consistency?
Why is personal consistency such an automatic response?
2. We don't have to think hard about the issue anymore
3. the consequences it will have when not being consistent.
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How do companies make use of our consistency?
Why in telephone selling tactics it is useful to first ask how people are doing?
How did the chinese during the Korean War got answers from their American prisoners?
What is the foot-in-the-door-technique?
Why do people after signing a petition of keeping California Beautiful are more willing to put a Drive carefully sign in the yard, than people you just ask directly?
What did Freedman and Fraser findings tell us?
What where the great advantages of a written declaration in the example of the american prisoners?
Second, it can be shown to other people. So it can be used to persuade other prisoners and make them believe that the author genuinely believes what he had written,
Why does consistency pressure squeezes self image from both the inside as well as the outside?
From the outside, there is a sneakier pressure, a tendency to adjust this image according to the way others perceive us.
Why are those 100 word or less testimonial contests so successful?
What is the effect of hazing/hell week of furtunity's?
What are the key factors for an effective commitment changing a person self-image?
Why inner choice is necessary for a good commitment?
Why should we never heavily bribe or threaten our children to do the things we want them truly to believe in?
Why instead of bribe or threaten should u use reasons that make them feel responsible for their actions themselves?
Why are new reasons for the justifying of the commitment important?
Why did the energy savings increased even more when people where told it would be posted in the newspaper the first time and later they told them that this would not happen?
What are two signals to know that you're trapped in consistency or commitment?
2.Trust the first flash of feeling when youre questioning yourself if you made the right choice.
Why did the example of the women who gave the salesman a kiss worked?
What is meant by the hobgoblins of the mind?
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