Regulatory Focus Theory

The main strategies of governing the crimes and harms of the powerful are to ‘punish’ and ‘persuade’ business actors to improve their behaviour. These two approaches are examined to understand why they function best together, and illustrations of a punitive and persuasive approach are given. The case study of an industrial disaster, such as the Kader Toy factory fire in 1993, is associated to highlight which key elements should be regarded as having the greatest potential in controlling this…

Review the details of the goal you developed addressing the specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely features. To improve the client’s ability to time manage by creating weekly plans to assess how many tasks are completed within 2 weeks is the SMART goal that I’ve developed along with the client. Personally, I believe that the goal was highly achievable and simple to understand/ follow. A significant part of the goal is that it does not require a huge commitment to complete. At the…

The art of persuasion is in high demand in an age where advertising supports entire categories of the economy. If you have the skill of persuasion you can use it to grow your business, gain influence and succeed professionally. There are 6 main principals of persuasion: Reciprocity, Scarcity, Authority, Commitment, Consensus, and Liking. I will tell you a little bit about each of these principals in the following paragraphs and give you an example of a situation is which I was tasked with…

Can your children get you in a serious trouble and even send you to prison!? Obviously, yes. One such a man, author Dave Barry, wrote “Driven to distraction,” published in December 30, 2001, and he argues that how far it is difficult to satisfy your children’s demands in order to make them joyful and happy. He begins building his credibility with personal facts and successfully employing emotional appeals. In his article, Dave relies on his personal experiences with his daughter and the trouble…

The power of persuasion can be exponential. Think of the persuasiveness of candidates for public office, world leaders, ceo’s, managers, teachers, parents, and children. All of us use persuasion to negotiate our wants and needs on a daily basis. Often times we use principles of persuasion without even knowingly doing so. The six principles of persuasion are Reciprocity, Scarcity, Authority, Commitment, Consistency/ Consensus, and Liking. Reciprocity is the understanding of give and take for…

without confidence then the argument is less persuasive. Secondly, the conversion theory states that in a group the minority has the most effect, and can easily convert the members of the majority to believe in the minority’s cause. The last of the three is the information manipulation theory, in which a persuader breaks one of the four conversational maxims: quantity, quality, relation, and matter. In each of these theories, the persuader and the persuaded are affected and influenced by each…

Hovland’s research program on persuasion brought a lot of light into how people are able to be persuaded easier. Aristotle may have come up with the general structure of persuasion well before Hovland but Aristotle didn’t have nearly the same amount of scientific data, research, and experiments that Hovland had when attempting to explain the phenomena. Hovland’s findings can be broken down into three sections or categories. The first of these being the source of the persuasion and or message.…

In recent news Robert Dear attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After entering the Planned Parenthood facility with a gun and opening fire, Dear claimed to be a “baby warrior” as he took the lives of three people while wounding nine (Liss-Schultz). While this is situational irony in itself, society, whether pro-life or pro-choice, banded together to bring justice to Robert Dear. The media shockingly chose to cover this topic in a manner that takes a stance against…

to be closer to his friends Billy lies and says he like chocolate milk as well. Advertising is another good example of this because some products claim to be "number 1" or "most popular" or "best in the world", when it surely isn't. The bandwagon theory only happens when a person feels the need to fit in and conform to another person or a communal…

“Editha” by William Dean Howells is a historical fiction short story written to emphasize the romanticism the main character holds towards war. Young Editha Balcom is engaged to a conscientious objector, George Gearson, who aspires to be a pastor. However, with war on the horizon, she believes he should join in the war effort to bring honor to their country. Through much persistence on her part, she persuades George to join and he becomes a captain. To the despair of Editha, George dies in the…