Classroom Handouts and Assignments

Persuasion Summer Syllabus

Persuasion Interview Assignment

Persuasion Questions

Concepts to Study for Exams

Persuasion Abstract Assignment

Videos

Videos shown in class and bonus videos on related concepts

Additional Videos Online

The Power of the Situation

Milgram's Experiment on ABC News

Online Assignments (Required)

Watch Outfoxed, the video (45 minutes)

Watch # 19 The Power of the Situation: Zimbardo video on Stanford Prison Study and Milgrams Study (27 minutes)

Online Advertisement Sites

Searchable database of ads

Additional Items of Interest
These items are here to pique your interest and allow
you to further explore various concepts

Are you a high or low self monitor?

Subliminal

• Do you see the subliminal messages in these ads?
• Disney Subliminal at Snopes.com
• Back masking

Persuasive Techniques

• With these words I can sell you anything. William Lutz
•  Confessions of a Car Salesman
• How Police Interrogation Works

• Friendship, Liking, and the Peripheral Route to Persuasion: An Analysis of Party Selling Techniques in Tupperware, Home Interiors, and, Mary Kay

• Cialdini's Consulting Page

• NTCE Double Speak Awards

Cults

• Jonestown Project: Website on Jonestown and People's Temple

• Cultic Studies: Information about Cults and Psychological Manipulation

• Knights of the KKK Youth Corp

NLP

• Neurolinguistic Programming

• Persuasion Engineering: Bandler

• Neurolinguistic Programming Against -Skeptics Dictionary

Compliance Issues

The Lucifer Effect --Pictures of Milgram's Shock Study, Stanford Prison Study,  and Prison Scandals