Deception In Ted Talk

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The theory of persuasion that I have selected for my Ted Talk is Deception. The act of deception is deceiving someone, sometimes lying, to convince an audience to believe your message. Persuaders can intentionally or unintentionally do this when conveying a message to an audience. The main idea of my theory is that is it important and useful to be able to determine when someone is deceiving us. It order for us to effective audience members, we need to learn the skills and ideas to help determine when someone is using deception to make us believe them. People use deception every single day, for example a car salesperson, he will say and tell us anything to get us to purchase a car. If we learn the skills needed we will be able to determine …show more content…
The main thing that interest me the most however is learning about how people use deception and what ways people trick you into agreeing with their message. Some people are so good at deceiving others that the audience has no idea it happens. I am interested in learning what those things are. I am excited to learn how people have become good deceivers and also how the audience can learn to recognize it. This theory will benefit the audience in their everyday lives very significantly. The audience will be able to detect deception in all aspect of life now. It will help them in normal conversation as well as big public speeches. Not only will this help them as an audience, but also it will help them as speakers. After learning about what deception is and how to recognize it, the audience will know when they are speaking in deception. This can give them a “how to” or “what not to do” in their speeches. Some difficulties I might face throughout this Ted Talk is not being able to catch some of the deception. I hope to be able to find some clips or videos of deceptive speeches, however, I am afraid I will not be able to recognize the deception being used. I am also worried that I might face some difficulties finding enough resources to use in this Ted Talk. I want to make sure I am able to find all the information needed in order to present an outstanding Ted

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