
Pre-Suasion: Channeling Attention for Change
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The author of the legendary best seller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini, shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn't lie in the message itself but in the key moment before that message is delivered.
What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? Using the same combination of rigorous scientific research and accessibility that made his Influence an iconic best seller, Robert Cialdini explains how to capitalize on the essential window of time before you deliver an important message. This "privileged moment for change" prepares people to be receptive to a message before they experience it. Optimal persuasion is achieved only through optimal pre-suasion. In other words, to change minds, a pre-suader must also change states of mind.
His first solo work in over 30 years, Cialdini's Pre-Suasion draws on his extensive experience as the most cited social psychologist of our time and explains the techniques a person should implement to become a master persuader. Altering a listener's attitudes, beliefs, or experiences isn't necessary, says Cialdini - all that's required is for a communicator to redirect the audience's focus of attention before a relevant action.
From studies on advertising imagery to treating opiate addiction, from the annual letters of Berkshire Hathaway to the annals of history, Cialdini draws on an array of studies and narratives to outline the specific techniques you can use on online marketing campaigns and even effective wartime propaganda. He illustrates how the artful diversion of attention leads to successful pre-suasion and gets your targeted audience primed and ready to say yes.
- Listening Length9 hours and 24 minutes
- Audible release dateSept. 6 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB071ZQQD7L
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 9 hours and 24 minutes |
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Author | Robert B. Cialdini |
Narrator | John Bedford Lloyd |
Audible.ca Release Date | September 06 2016 |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B071ZQQD7L |
Best Sellers Rank | #7,346 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #23 in Rhetoric (Books) #33 in Negotiating #34 in Negotiating Skills (Books) |
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In Pre-Suasion, Cialdini outlines his research into the pre-suasive impact that environmental, verbal and emotional stimulus can have on people's decision making and does so in a way intended to be heuristically instructive to the reader, stead of merely stating the evidence of studies as was the case with 'Influence'.
The book presents much knowledge to glean and manages to be almost non-chalant toward the gravitas of some of the ideas presented within it, the lessons that marketers and advertisers could learn from reading this are seemingly endless, and yet the book remains perfectly readable to the lay-person and grounded in jargon-free language.
My only criticism is that I would have liked, considering the book is aimed at educating, sections encouraging the reader to think for themselves about how (based on prior information) they would attempt to create pre-suasive environments in order to promote ideas/products/behaviours. As trying to absorb and remember the methods and outcomes of huge studies without repetition and practice is quite difficult, I personally find.

I have took the screenshot of the thickness of those pages that I found only on this book. So basically author has tried to sell a average quality low content to more pages and when you buy this book you will get a feeling of being a fool . I am not saying this book is not worthy but only saying that this could be get free online for should be priced 100-150 bucks not more than that.


Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on August 4, 2018
I have took the screenshot of the thickness of those pages that I found only on this book. So basically author has tried to sell a average quality low content to more pages and when you buy this book you will get a feeling of being a fool . I am not saying this book is not worthy but only saying that this could be get free online for should be priced 100-150 bucks not more than that.




"In large measure, WHO we are with respect to any choice is WHERE we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice" Master the moments that matter.
Time spent reading this is time very well spent. Cialdini offers so many stunning insights, so go ahead, buy the book and satisfy your "craving for cognitive closure"...