Sentences with phrase «about persuasion»

We theorized that the presence of cues about the persuasion agent's trustworthiness can «change the meaning of boasting.»

Read a book about persuasion.

Offending, insulting or humiliating other people because of their race is not about persuasion.

As you undoubtedly know, the article is formally about rhetoric, about persuasion; that is, about the ability to convince a listener to accept and act o what you say rather than whatever it is that somebody else says.

5 That observation, as applied to what students learn about persuasion, reflects the undeniable fact that many persuasive techniques stem in some way or another from the teaching of classical rhetoricians.

Anyone seeking to lead teachers, either as an administrator or as a union leader, must understand that leadership of teachers is often about persuasion, and respect.

«The legislative process, more importantly, is about persuasion and we are on a daily basis engaging with members of the General Assembly in both parties to make the case that the time has come for expanding access to quality pre-k programs to some of our most disadvantaged kids,» says Pence.

Politics is about persuasion.

And it will be filtered, disseminated, and judged in all the ways you suggest (I think particularly important is your point about persuasion and reinforcement as the ultimate purpose of viral, voter generated video).

Supporting breastfeeding is not about persuasion but about providing the infrastructure to enable them to continue; since some three quarters of mothers already opt to start breastfeeding, persuasion is irrelevant for them.

This strategy is about mobilizing an existing voting base and not at all about persuasion.

Not exact matches

The most important lesson in persuasion is that you can't expect others to care about what you want.

The reason: Most of today's conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about «colors and the mind.»

More and more of them are female though, with about 54 % surveyed of the male persuasion, down from 62 %.

When someone types in all caps when making a comment or for a new post about their new job, we immediately assume the person is trying to get our attention without using persuasion.

Learn more about the science of influence and persuasion and how you can use this knowledge to build your business in the infographic below:

Mode of Persuasion The customer commentary will tell you much about the way a certain kind of visitor is going to make a decision, from which you can identify their mode of pPersuasion The customer commentary will tell you much about the way a certain kind of visitor is going to make a decision, from which you can identify their mode of persuasionpersuasion.

Author David Lewis shares what we now know about the science of persuasion and how you can apply these «super powers» in your content strategy to affect consumer behavior.

Our newly crowned SUPERTHREADER C.J. Wolfe wonders about the SIGNIFICANCE of the postmodern yet conservative use of ALL CAPS: To kick - start the manifesto John, here's a question that I've been wondering about the POMOCON persuasion ever since I started reading and posting on this blog: Is....

I'm not just talking about Christian fundamentalists, but fundamentalists of every persuasion.

The model of the world as God's body encourages holistic attitudes of responsibility for and care of the vulnerable and oppressed; it is nonhierarchical and acts through persuasion and attraction; it has a great deal to say about the body and nature.

Why has so much attention been given to President Obama's religious affiliation yet no consideration nor discussion has made it to center stage about Mit Romney's religious persuasion Mormonism?

Silence about Mit Romney's religious persuasion it politically orchestrated.

Perhaps the hardest lesson I've had to learn as I've raised questions about Bible - Belt Christianity is that no amount of passion or persuasion can convince others to ask the same questions.

Instinctively we know that our best preaching comes about when we have discovered the ways in which the biblical writers sought to change minds, hearts, and lives and then have taken those «available means of persuasion» with us into the pulpit.

But the process theist would insist that God must always work with an already existing creaturely order and that changes in this order can therefore come about only gradually through the agency of divine persuasion.

Like effective and respectful therapy, persuasion brings about new wants and aims, but it does so, not by coercion or by frustrating desires, but by opening new possibilities, which is the result of divine «creativity.»

Few of either persuasion probably know how the situation came about.

Besides a persuasion is more than deliberation about competing means to future aims.

Whereas it may be possible to bring about just relations between individuals by moral and rational persuasion, in larger groups this is an impossibility.

If God would use coercive power if it were available, then there are, in principle, times when divine persuasion plus divine coercion would bring about more worthwhile results.

Jesus» tribe has no official language, no preferred music style, no political persuasion, no dress code, no rules about tattoos or hair - length or food choices.

Being of a more egalitarian persuasion, I focused today on learning more about the thoughts and ideas of self - described complementarians.

The question was not about her religious persuasion, her intelligence, or your pride in her... The question was how can you pontificate and pass judgments on these blogs when you didn't have the cojones to help your daughter with the facts of life?

I gave him the benefit of the doubt early on, even though every single person I have encountered, who is of the Reformed persuasion, has proven to be extremely capable of pointing out to everyone else where everyone else is wrong, and can do it in such a way as to give you the impression that, not only do they want to correct your erroneous beliefs, but also want to make sure you feel very, very bad about being completely wrong.

I listen to pastors condemn the lack of biblical literacy in the church today and then turn around and say the most outlandish things about God or Jesus, and even crazier things about people of other religions, political persuasion, or sexual orientation.

At the ontological level, the level of efficient causality, divine persuasion is not operative; «forbearance would mean non-existence...» But once humanity is created and God resolves to relate himself to humankind in terms of persuasion and not coercion, God «would have to be uncertain about a number of details of the future... and in some respects unable to accomplish his will at all.»

In this third set of meanings coercion refers to the inducement of behavior through the application of extrinsic motivation, and persuasion refers to the communication of information about the natural consequences which will occur with various alternative behaviors.

What makes moral feelings peculiar is the logical point behind Kant's thrust — we owe dignity and respect to other persons as persons regardless of our other feelings about them, and in a moral crisis we may feel urgently the not always so gentle persuasion of God in the form of conscience.

Persuasion in this sense consists in communicating information about the advantages of a certain course of action to gain strength of beauty from natural consequences unmanipulated by the voluntary action of other people.

The model of the world as God's body encourages responsibility and care for the vulnerable and oppressed; it is a nonhierarchical image that acts through persuasion and attraction; it has a great deal to say about the body and nature.

Faith is typically defined as a belief, reliance upon, confidence in, or persuasion about the truth of some claim.

I've come to realize that the athiest argument is usually about 1 percent persuasion and about 99 percent self - serving... you have to hear it and sell it to yourself repeatedly, whereas I already know what I know.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

Generally speaking, however, the new spiritual enthusiasts — Pentecostals and the like — are so individualistic and world - escaping that they avoid cultural analysis and encounter; and many of us of mainline persuasion, seeming to have lost all clarity about our spiritual identity, are captive to the academic principalities.

I should also point out the irony to atheists and agnostics (such as myself) of seeing a religious person insult people from another religious persuasion about being a cult.

This is the first time I've craved it since, so that says a lot about your powers of persuasion.

The fans who will be the most happy about Liverpool beating Tottenham at Anfield today will be those of the Chelsea persuasion, because it has just about confirmed the title and a win away to Burnley tomorrow should be that for Antonio Conte's side.

Topics this time: Brooks Aukamp, Senior Account Executive on Twitter's Politics and Advocacy team provides insights about promoted tweets for persuasion and calls to action, and the power of...

But, we also know that persuasion is not only about numbers, policy proposals and goals.