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Stanley Milgram's Small World Experiment 1967
People in Omaha given a latter, asked to send it to someone they don't know in Boston

6 degrees of separation..6 people typically

Obesity can also spread through social networks
Gore-Tex Fabric factories
Some rule of 150 people..actually had factories next to e/o so never went over 150..only can be relatively close friends with 150 people
Extent to which the urban legend was ________ was the best predictor of how wide the urban legend spread
plausible

Disgust responses are also better predictors than joy responses
_______ also increases willingness to spread information
arousal
a common sequence
original group adopts taste---poseurs poach taste and signal shifts---original group abandons taste---further outsiders start to poach, signal further shifts--original poseurs abandon taste--everyone abandons
6 principles seem to help ideas stick
1. Simplisticity

2. Unexpectedness

3. Concreteness

4. Credibility

5.Emotional

6. Tell a story

Sticky ideas and messages are those that are memorable and change people's behavior
1. Simplicity
It does not equal dumbing down or reducing length of message

More about finding the core of its ideas

Southwest Airlines example
2. Unexpectedness
like body paint in flight video

Huge challenge when communicating is getting peoples' attention

Most basic way to do this is to break the pattern

Montgomery mini-mall
3. Concreteness
Language is often intangible
We're wired to remember concrete, tangible images

"a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"..progressive insurance too
4. Credibility
Authority plus details is best
Or you can invite people to verify for themselves "are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?"
5. Emotional
to change behavior, supportive beliefs are often necessary but not sufficient

An emotional reaction is often needed to change behavior

Identifiable victim effect (people donate more to donation when talking about specific kid instead of statistics)
6. Tell a story
like subway Jaryd story!
A story model predicts ______ _____ _______
juror decision making

The central cognitive process in juror decision making is story construbtion-the creation of a narrative summary of the events under dispute

Jurors more likely to convict when prosecution presents evidence in a temporal sequence that matched the occurrence of the original events

Defense better off poking holes in prosecution story than offering a weak story of their own