Practitioners of the science of persuasion are familiar with the door-in-the-face (DITF) technique, which was first identified 46 years ago by Robert Cialdini and his colleagues at Arizona State ...
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Scientists have long studied why some requests seem to be met with a yes while others get a no. Now, there's a new development: A study finds that... Marketers, managers and panhandlers all have ...