How can people persuade others to do what they want? Social psychology explains…

gamzoles
4 min readMar 27, 2020

Persuasion or convincing other people to do something, to get help or to make them agree on something is sometimes very challenging. However, some people are very talented to convince people and also rejecting them is so much harder comparing to others. But why?

Social psychology defines some strategies that people use to get what they want. Some of these common techniques are explained below.

Foot-in-the-Door Technique

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