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Anonymous05/04/26, 23:49No.16970351Resources for learning how influence works
I want to learn the basics of sociology, economics, linguistics, so that I can try to influence people better, can anyone recommend beginner friendly books, articles, online courses, or short overviews for each field?
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Anon05/05/26, 01:06No.16970384
the research most of these books are built on has failed to replicate, ego depletion, social priming, most of the behavioral stuff, and the people who wrote the popular books aren't reliable either, gino studied honesty professionally and harvard just revoked her tenure for fabricating data, ariely co-authored a paper with her that got retracted for the same reason and duke kept him anyway, so the researchers and the research are both in bad shape, what actually holds up is schelling's strategy of conflict, which shows how people influence each other through commitments and expectations, if you make a credible commitment to a course of action before someone else decides, you change what they do, the models are mathematically grounded and have been validated, and elster's explaining social behavior, which is useful because it shows that for every rule about how people respond there's a counter-rule that works in the opposite direction, scarcity makes things more desirable except when it makes them look unwanted, trying to persuade someone works except when they notice you're trying to persuade them and resist, brehm documented that resistance effect in 1966 and it still replicates, the practical upshot of both books together is that you can understand the structure of a situation well enough to recognize which way things are likely to go, but you can't reliably move a specific person in a specific direction on demand, and the linguistics section of whatever reading list you find won't give you that either
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Anon05/05/26, 04:40No.16970442
This was written for a popular audience not academic.
Still, it's one of the best selling and most influential books of all time.
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Anon05/05/26, 09:17No.16970501
The best way to influence people is to exert power. To do that you need authority or money.
That said, I'd suggest something easily digestible like Khan Academy for economics and sociology. After that find any reputable university website and check which literature is used for their econ/soc/ling/etc. courses and skim through those. But it's probably a futile endeavor.
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Anon05/07/26, 19:46No.16971926
recommend reading "Behave" by Sapolsky, great book for understanding how and why people act
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Anon05/09/26, 07:56No.16972889
>so that I can try to influence people better
watch vids and read up on psychopaths and sociopaths.
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Anon05/09/26, 07:59No.16972890
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Powerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince
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Anon05/09/26, 16:41No.16973127
"Damasio, A. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. A masterly introduction to the role of the frontal cortex in emotional regulation. Also covers the subject of the evolution of aggression and nonaggression."
"Brown, A. The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man. London: Simon and Schuster, 1999. A good introduction to evolution and the neurobiology of behavior."
"Konner, M. The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2002. Probably the most nuanced and insightful book available concerning the biology of human behavior (and beautifully written by an eminent scientist/physician). Includes in-depth coverage of aggression and the theories about the nature of aggression."
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Anon05/09/26, 18:00No.16973158
just be a big guy
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Anon05/13/26, 10:05No.16975387
Let's bump this bs
