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Are you ready to unlock the power of psychological tricks? π In this article, we’ll explore some of the most effective strategies for influencing and persuading others. Whether you’re looking to improve your sales tactics, negotiate better deals, or simply want to understand human behavior better, these psychological tricks will help you achieve your goals. So, what is the most effective psychological trick you’ve ever used?
Understanding the Basics of Psychological Tricks
Before we dive into specific tactics, let’s first understand the basics of psychological tricks. These tricks are based on principles of human behavior and cognition, including decision-making, emotions, and social influence. By leveraging these principles, you can effectively influence and persuade others to act in a certain way.
1. Reciprocity: The Power of Giving
One of the most effective psychological tricks is the principle of reciprocity. This principle states that when you give something to someone, they feel obligated to give something back in return. By offering value upfront, you can create a sense of indebtedness in others, leading them to reciprocate your actions.
– Example: Offering a free sample of your product can lead to increased sales as customers feel the need to return the favor.
2. Social Proof: The Power of Numbers
Another powerful psychological trick is social proof, which relies on the idea that people tend to follow the actions of others. By showcasing positive testimonials, reviews, or endorsements, you can influence others to trust and engage with your brand or product.
– Example: Displaying customer ratings and reviews on your website can boost credibility and encourage new customers to make a purchase.
3. Scarcity: The Fear of Missing Out
Scarcity is a psychological principle that states people value things more when they are limited in quantity or availability. By creating a sense of urgency and scarcity, you can motivate others to act quickly and seize the opportunity before it’s too late.
– Example: Using phrases like “limited time offer” or “while supplies last” can drive more conversions and sales.
4. Authority: The Power of Influence
People are more likely to comply with requests from authoritative figures or experts in a particular field. By positioning yourself as an authority figure or leveraging the expertise of others, you can enhance your credibility and influence others to follow your lead.
– Example: Including endorsements from industry experts or thought leaders can boost your brand’s credibility and trustworthiness.
5. Anchoring: The Power of Framing
Anchoring is a cognitive bias that occurs when people rely heavily on the first piece of information they receive (the anchor) when making decisions. By strategically framing your messages or offers, you can influence how others perceive and evaluate the information presented to them.
– Example: Setting a higher price initially before offering a discount can make the discounted price seem more attractive and affordable.
Putting Psychological Tricks into Practice
Now that you understand the basics of psychological tricks, it’s time to put them into practice. Whether you’re looking to improve your sales pitch, negotiate a better deal, or simply want to persuade others to see things from your perspective, these tactics can help you achieve your goals effectively.
1. Crafting Compelling Messages
When communicating with others, it’s essential to craft messages that resonate with their needs, desires, and emotions. By using persuasive language, storytelling, and social proof, you can create a compelling narrative that captures their attention and motivates them to take action.
– Tip: Use emotive language, testimonials, and real-life examples to illustrate the benefits of your product or service effectively.
2. Building Rapport and Trust
Establishing a strong rapport with others is key to influencing and persuading them effectively. By actively listening, mirroring their body language, and showing empathy and understanding, you can build trust and credibility, making it easier to influence them positively.
– Tip: Show genuine interest in others, ask open-ended questions, and validate their opinions and experiences to build rapport and trust.
3. Leveraging the Power of Priming
Priming is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when exposure to a stimulus influences subsequent behavior or decision-making. By priming others with positive associations, images, or words, you can influence their perceptions and judgments, leading them to respond in a desired way.
– Tip: Use subtle cues, visuals, or language that primes others to think positively about your brand or message, influencing their behavior and actions.
4. Using Persuasive Techniques
There are various persuasive techniques you can use to influence and persuade others effectively. From the foot-in-the-door technique to the door-in-the-face technique, these strategies can help you overcome objections, negotiate better deals, and persuade others to see things from your perspective.
– Tip: Experiment with different persuasive techniques, tailor your approach to the individual’s needs and preferences, and be open to feedback and collaboration to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
5. Applying Ethical Considerations
When using psychological tricks, it’s essential to do so ethically and responsibly. Avoid manipulating or deceiving others, be transparent and honest in your interactions, and prioritize building long-term relationships based on mutual trust and respect.
– Tip: Prioritize transparency, integrity, and ethical behavior in your interactions, communicate openly and honestly, and respect others’ autonomy and decisions.
In conclusion, mastering the art of psychological tricks can help you influence and persuade others effectively in various contexts and situations. From understanding the basics of human behavior to applying specific tactics and strategies, these psychological tricks can help you achieve your goals and drive desired outcomes. So, what are you waiting for? Start implementing these tricks today and watch your influence and persuasion skills soar to new heights! πͺπ₯
Remember, the most effective psychological trick you can ever use is empathy and understanding. By putting yourself in others’ shoes, listening actively, and showing genuine care and concern, you can build strong relationships, win hearts, and achieve success in all your endeavors. Good luck! π
Offering food the dog wonβt eat to the cat. Dog eats food.
I got myself to stop biting my nails by wearing a rubber band on my wrist and snapping it every time I caught myself doing it. After about 1-2 weeks I completely stopped and havenβt bit them in over 10 years. Could probably work for other minor bad habits
My “dad voice”. It’s amazing how hard it can jolt people. I think the funniest use though was playing volleyball. I’d just boom out “mine!” and the other team would all step away from the ball.
My son is neurodivergent. If I just go up to him and tell him it’s time to go, there’s major pushback. If I tell him we’re going in 5 minutes, he has a bit of time to prepare for a shift in focus and will happily follow me. This works with anything with him. I’ve told his teachers and they find out quickly that you’ve got to give him that heads up or it’s a major pain in the ass to get him switched.
My sister kept staring at me, which she knew annoyed me (she would always look away before I could catch her doing it) so I faked a yawn. No noise, just the mouth movements. She let out a loud yawn moments later. Knew she was looking at me.
The goldilocks effect works wonders. Say you want to convince a person to do a certain task, but you know they’re not going to do it unless persuaded. Try this. Offer them a total of 3 tasks. 1 being your task and the two others, slightly more complicated or mundane longer tasks. The trick here is not to be too obvious that the other two are duds. Start with dud task 1, and make it the more mundane dull one. Then your task, which sounds slightly better, then task 3 which is more complex and demanding of skill and ability. 9 times out of 10 they pick the task you want them to pick. And if not, you still got them doing something you needed done in the long run.
Saying, “heeey <name>. How are you?”
I made tons of friends just by saying/texting this regularly.
Owning up to my mistakes with full, if not excessive, ownership. It tends to disarm the offended.
Masking via reflection.
I observe how you present yourself and bounce off of this. Despite my commentary history I am decently well liked in real life but barely known
Here’s a trick that works with my primary school class at school:
“Whoever does the best job at listening and following directions today will get to be the table cleaner at the end of the day” means that now cleaning is a reward, and everyone wants to do it.
If you have someone bugging to complete a project sooner than is possible, give them something to do. “I still need 3 months worth of those financial documents. And have you given me this?” Best case, it helps the project. Worst case, you may feel like you just gave Dale Gribble a bucket of sand to hold.
When upset callers would rant and start to curse and yell, I’d interrupt with “Wow, I am really sorry that you feel you have to talk to me this way in order for me to help you. You don’t, but I understand. I’ll let you talk and then I am going to help you. I am sorry I interrupted you; you were saying?
They would either apologize, chance their tone or hang up. I was fine with either one.
People tend to trust you if you never lie to them.
Listening to happy music can actually make you happier. Those lyrics are affirmations. If you keep repeating lyrics that says youβre a piece of shit or youβre not worthy youβll end up believing it
Under promise and over deliver.
Controlling the conversation by asking people questions about their lives. People love to talk about themselves. It minimizes the chances that they will have to ask you questions you may not want to talk about. Bonus points for them thinking you are so caring by asking them about themselves. They donβt realize you are asking them questions to control the narrative of the conversation and avoiding being asked about things you donβt want to answer.
βHow is your kidβs swim team? Is he enjoying it? Has he explored other sports? Tell me more about the try out process.β
Do you give a fuck about any of that? Probably not. But, they think you do and spend the whole time talking about it so you donβt get questions like, βHow is the divorce going?β They walk away thinking you are such a kind, caring person.
whenever i want someone to do something for me that i know they will say no to i always ask them to do something more intense than what i actually want and then ask what i want as a ‘compromise’
One of my favorite tricks I use on myself is, when I can’t sleep, I just curl into the most comfy position, close my eyes and pretend really hard that it’s 6 am and I have to get up. I don’t know why, but it makes me fall asleep real quick.
Giving a friend’s child (10 yo) an illusion of choice to get them to do something you want them to do. So instead of saying “put your socks on”, say “do you want these socks, or these ones”. Or same for dinner. Not “Eat your dinner”. Ask, “do you want peas or brocolli?” They feel ownership of their choice and some control in their life. Kids in general, have very little control over their lives and they need practice to make decisions.
Telling someone that they donβt look well or that they sound sick when they are clearly not is very effective for getting some less motivated guys to go home early sick call in the next day or to disprove the statement by working harder. Doesnβt work 100% of the time but I brag about getting a few supervisors to go home early βsickβ
If you struggle to get people to listen to you or take you seriously, lower the pitch of your voice and project more from the back of your mouth.Β Consider what you want to sat beforehand, and speak slower and more deliberate. It doesn’t have to be batman, just your own voice, just a tad deeper than usual.
It gives your tone more gravitas and authority.
Silence is often the best reply
Acting (more) dumb and incompetent (than i really am). Managed to infiltrate and sabotage a neonazi recruiting group, managed to avoid certain tasks at the job, managed to outcompete competitors simply by making them underestimate me, managed to gather informations simply by making people think im too stupid to understand what they talk about and they are safe to gossip or whatever while im still present and quite a lot more.
Ps: Im a clumpsy man often and i know that, so it makes it even better for me.
All of these answers will be made into an AI voiced YouTube video by tomorrow.
When I used to babysit my niece and nephew, I used to act all excited and tell them that there was officially no bedtime and that we were going to stay up all night watching TV and playing games. Without fail, they would fall asleep on the couch at their exact bedtime.
Reverse psychology works very well on my 3-5 years old kids.
When getting a client’s background (social services) and they bring up their kids, ask to see a photo or ask something that triggers a proud parent response. Accelerates the process of building trust.
Asking “would you be opposed to doing X?” instead of “would you be willing to do X?”
Visualize the prize…whatever the goal is, I mentally run through the process and visualize the best case scenario outcome. Part of that is considering the worst case scenario, accepting the possibility, and continuing to visualize the best outcome.
“Are you Okay???!!” While undergoing a painful shoulder procedure on that already painful area, I was actively in a mental space of visualizing running through a meadow of wildflowers, full-speed on a warm summer day. “Yeah, I’m just running through a meadow in my head until this is done.” The med tech was really worried that I had passed out on the table and had the doc stop the procedure, which was jarring and painful. Now I warn people.
It is like a very effective form of dissociation, I suppose. For good or bad, it works. Especially with breathing big.
Not a trick per se, but realizing that I am not my thoughts.
My girlfriend seems to have a thing for getting it on when people are nearby. I’m not even sure she’s aware of it but if we have company sleeping on the couch for the night she’s never “not in the mood” if I try and instigate some shit in the bedroom. She’s not loud or anything, I think it’s the sneaky aspect.
I have used this to my advantage many times.
Mirroring body language. This works super well when meeting someone for the first time, as it subconsciously puts the other person at ease.
Used to work in a pretty rough pub and one time a nasty fight kicked off between a regular and the owner.. I just walked up to the regular pretending I was unaware of his battered face and bloody knuckles and asked him how his new born baby daughter was doing.. in 5 seconds he went from mid fight rage to smiling proud father and proceeded to tell me all about how beautiful she was.. then he offered to shake hands, apologised and bought a round for everyone in the pub!
βOut of sight, out of mindβ, which is why I have several caches at work and at home of snacks I have hid from myself
Stare at a crying toddler in public until the toddler sees you, and they immediately stop crying most of the time.
Eye contact and smile when appropriate.
Acctualy this one came in my minde -To avoid workplace drama and be well liked is to just compliment people behind their back.
I have harnessed the power of positive reinforcement. Instead of focusing on what is wrong, I make a conscious effort to highlight and praise the positive behaviors or traits of others.
Using awkward silences to get what you want. Ask somebody for something. If they give you a reason not to give it to you say nothing. Stand there and more often than not theyβll give in and give it to you.
Silence
SO far the best/most interesting question of the day
Set expectations low and blow peoples minds with my mediocrity
I used this technique at University where I couldn’t stand the thought of having to answer questions in front of a group of people. So if you find yourself in a group situation where someone (a leader, tutor, manager etc) is asking questions that must be answered and you want to avoid being picked so that you don’t have to talk, then here is my tip. If the person locks eyes on you as they ask the question, then just as they are about get to the end of their question you break eye contact and look towards another person in the room and hold it. Their attention is diverted to that other person just as the question ends and the person they are now looking at feels compelled to answer. If however the person starts asking the question while looking at someone else then look at that other person and hold it so you can’t get suckered. Use it sparingly because if you do it enough on the same person, they will be on to you
I look beyond at my future self, really loving my body…
I am distantly thinking how many regrets will I harbor, hours or even 2 hours later if I decide to skip my workout sessions instead of going to the gym.
I wonder whether my future me will wake up a happier person if now I put the dishes off till morning or even tomorrow. Doing the dishes in the morning, before work, or now, are options he may be willing to consider.
Do I have 3 months pop to study this project shall I be going easy at first three or 4 weeks to let myself be really spend the rest time working hard?
…essentially delayed gratification. In essence all the awful things lay out ready appetizing pieces that straight away gives you gratification while the good stuff till the moment of the climax offers you delayed gratification. Obesly, the truth is that when I find myself in such situations, I believe that waiting to reap the fruits could maybe be the best option after all
It is I who never had, however this seemed to be worth mention. The second person I would like to mention is Derren Brown. He once encountered a drunk muscular guy who challenged him to a fight. The man said “what are you looking at”, to which Derren commented, “a four-foot wall from outside my house”. The idea is that the challenged person is thrown off-guard and taken out of the state of high adrenaline. Hell for him, he sat down and a guy then started crying his head off about his estranged girlfriend. This is Derren Brown so…it might not be suitable for everyone else.
This is how I start the day, by saying hello to everybody I know, and I smile at them.
The most obvious one is that people sometimes when they see someone they remember from primary school or even just from the block when they were children show an awkward smile instead of a bright good day greeting. Do you ever think… if, for example, you bump into somebody every six months and both times you notice them and say hello, they will consider you to be an easygoing person.
Consequently, so small effort to make you be friendly!
As a front desk worker in a clinic, I handle the vast majority of patients and client interactions. The patient may have to inform about his or her medical background, or else the administration would not file your records. In the past I had uttered, βTake a look and make necessary changes!β They would put up a brick wall against that or just moan about it. Now when I say, it might sound, βHere are the instructions, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is to make the changes.β Shouting it in this particular manner makes one think less of it and the respondents take the clipboard without a grunt. That was just a little
One that I picked up from a friend of mine whenever he was trying to pick out dinner with his gf: you would rather get a response like ‘ i dont know, anything’ instead of just asking a supposed direct question. Then you might just have to come up with ideas afterwards which your interlocutor would just reject outright. Let’s start with “Hey, make sure NOT to…