{"id":691,"date":"2010-06-08T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T01:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2010-06-08T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T01:43:44","slug":"50-not-exactly-honest-ways-to-be-persuasive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/06\/08\/50-not-exactly-honest-ways-to-be-persuasive\/","title":{"rendered":"50 (Not Exactly Honest) Ways to Be Persuasive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moskalyuk.com\/blog\/yes-50-scientifically-proven-ways-to-be-persuasive\"> &#8220;review&#8221;<\/a> by Alex Moskalyuk of Goldstein,\u00a0 Martinand and Cialdini\u2019s <em>Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive<\/em> is rather more of a summary athan a review &#8211; and by being so it demonstrates both why reading books isn&#8217;t necessarily all it&#8217;s cut out to be, and why including links in web pages is <a href=\"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/delinkification-causes-frustration\/\">not a bad idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that the book amplifies on how to implement each technique, and if so and if I was interested in actually going into sales then the book might be  useful to me. But all I really care about is not getting tricked, and  for that the brief summaries provided by Moskalyuk are in most cases all I need to &#8220;get the point&#8221;. (In fact much of what is published in books these days deserves little more than scanning so <a href=\"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/attention-returns\/\">I don&#8217;t agree with those that complain<\/a> about the web as encouraging that as opposed to &#8220;deeper&#8221; reading.)<\/p>\n<p>But in some of the cases where I might be inclined to doubt the &#8220;research&#8221; quoted, a link to where I could check it out would have been most useful, and for that matter a well designed e-version of the book would probbaly better serve both my needs and those of the wannabe salespeople.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;review&#8221; by Alex Moskalyuk of Goldstein,\u00a0 Martinand and Cialdini\u2019s Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive is rather more of a summary athan a review &#8211; and by being so it demonstrates both why reading books isn&#8217;t necessarily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/06\/08\/50-not-exactly-honest-ways-to-be-persuasive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-critlit2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}