{"id":23563,"date":"2023-02-06T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=136480"},"modified":"2023-02-06T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:35:16","slug":"instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Genius Podcast: The science of persuasion, with Prof Vanessa Bohns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why you have more influence than you realise, and how to convince somebody to do you a favour. <\/p>

By Thomas Ling\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 06 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Instant Genius<\/em> is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. And in this episode, we\u2019re talking about your hidden influence on other people.<\/p>\n

How strong are your powers of persuasion? Probably a lot greater than you realise. That\u2019s according to social psychologist Vanessa Bohns<\/a>, professor of organizational behaviour at Cornell University and author of book You Have More Influence Than You Think<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In this episode, she explains the power of compliments, a concept called behavioural contagion, and how to convince somebody to do you a favour.<\/p>\n\n<p>Find\u00a0<em>Instant Genius<\/em>\u00a0on your preferred podcast platform here:\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to more episodes of Instant Genius:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/instant-genius-podcast-light-pollution\/"\">Light pollution, with Dr Greg Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-enhance-your-focus-with-sound-with-dr-nick-perham\/"\">How to enhance your focus with sound, with Dr Nick Perham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-the-electrome\/"\">The electrome, with Sally Adee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-big-garden-birdwatch\/"\">Big Garden Birdwatch, with Adrian Thomas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-emotions-with-dr-dean-burnett\/"\">Emotions, with Dr Dean Burnett<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/planet-earth\/instant-genius-podcast-biodiversity\/"\">Biodiversity, with Dr Andrew Terry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Why you have more influence than you realise, and how to convince somebody to do you a favour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":23564,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/02\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns.jpg",940,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/02\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/02\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns-300x128.jpg",300,128,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/02\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns-768x327.jpg",768,327,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/02\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns.jpg",800,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/02\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns.jpg",940,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/02\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-persuasion-with-prof-vanessa-bohns.jpg",940,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Why you have more influence than you realise, and how to convince somebody to do you a favour.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/23563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}