Monday, March 16, 2020

The influence of words in our society



Words influence our mind and in politics, in conversations, in ads, they are very important. It is fascinating how people analyze the human mind and sometimes invent techniques to manipulate them.

In politics and conversations :

Politicians need to be good in argumentation. They must convince people that what they say is true or the best option even when they lie or don't have actual arguments. Because of that, a lot of them use techniques to always be right. « The art of being right » is a famous book from Arthur Schopenhauer a german philosoph which lists all these techniques.You can watch this short video of a french mentalist, Fabien Olicard who talks about some techniques.


Sometimes to avoid a subject, politicians will try to talk about it and answer questions without really saying anything which has meaning. You can also watch this video of a humorist Franck Lepage who shows how easy it is to do this.


In ads :

There are a lot of techniques of manipulation in ads to make a customer buy a product. A famous one is to use fear. Indeed, through an advertising for the Road Safety Campaign (for example), the person watching will understand the dangerosity of driving and right after watching this, a car ad will be showed to give you a solution against this fear.
Showing an ad for a product and then showing it again in your show is another technique which influence your mind by making you remember it unconsciously.  



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