Throughout the semester, I learned about a lot of interesting concepts and theories, many of which applied to my life and current situations. During the final presentation, I was able to apply these concepts to analyze how Hitler persuaded the citizens of Germany to elect him. My group consisted of Michael Luzania, Pete Antogiovanni, Erik Martinez, and Danny Alvarado. My role throughout the presentation consisted of scheduling group chats and meetings as well as reminding group members of the general vision of the project and solving group conflicts and discrepancies. For my portion of the presentation, I analyzed the ideologies and political practices that Hitler used. He utilized de–individualization, scarcity and consistency theory to retain
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During the lecture, I was informed about consistency theory. This is when manipulators establish connections between attitudes in order to appear consistent. The reason why this is a highly persuasive strategy is because people desire consistent personalities since inconsistency creates psychological discomfort. However, Hitler was highly inconsistent and the people still valued him. He was able to use his inconsistencies to manipulate the public into believing they could not understand him because he was on another tier of intelligence. This could also be attributed to the fact that the citizens of Germany were blinded by anger towards Jewish citizens to realize it. In addition, Hitler hated Communism, but allied with Stalin, the leader of a communist nation. He also claimed states had absolute power, yet in reality they had to report to him and had virtually no free reign (Koenigsberg pars.1–4). Researchers from the Library of Social Science believe that all of Hitler’s inconsistencies show that he did not actually despise Jews. He just wished to incite anger in a domestic location to keep Germany blind and unaware of his inconsistencies. He also utilized denial and fear tactics to trick others into believing that he was very consistent and a powerful
During the lecture, I was informed about consistency theory. This is when manipulators establish connections between attitudes in order to appear consistent. The reason why this is a highly persuasive strategy is because people desire consistent personalities since inconsistency creates psychological discomfort. However, Hitler was highly inconsistent and the people still valued him. He was able to use his inconsistencies to manipulate the public into believing they could not understand him because he was on another tier of intelligence. This could also be attributed to the fact that the citizens of Germany were blinded by anger towards Jewish citizens to realize it. In addition, Hitler hated Communism, but allied with Stalin, the leader of a communist nation. He also claimed states had absolute power, yet in reality they had to report to him and had virtually no free reign (Koenigsberg pars.1–4). Researchers from the Library of Social Science believe that all of Hitler’s inconsistencies show that he did not actually despise Jews. He just wished to incite anger in a domestic location to keep Germany blind and unaware of his inconsistencies. He also utilized denial and fear tactics to trick others into believing that he was very consistent and a powerful