Here’s a quick and dirty bullet list of what I know on this subject
From comments:
People remember and value rationality more when you make it immediately provide useful benefits in their life
People don’t like being told what to do, but they do like being helped
From experience:
Inferential distance makes a really big difference in speed of comprehension, and speed of agreement, but I don’t know if it results in more followthrough
Its easier to convince people who like you
People do not automatically pick up on your thought process as you go through it, being rational often looks like being insightful
Corroborated by both:
Being nice and encouraging to people who are helping you makes it more likely for them to help in the future
It helps to give people specific advice about what to do/how to apply something, at least at first
There’s a difference between getting someone to agree with something, and getting them to follow through on that belief
People need to want to learn something, being positive and upbeat in your presentation is more effective than downbeat, scary, or guilt-tripping
Here’s a quick and dirty bullet list of what I know on this subject
From comments:
People remember and value rationality more when you make it immediately provide useful benefits in their life
People don’t like being told what to do, but they do like being helped
From experience:
Inferential distance makes a really big difference in speed of comprehension, and speed of agreement, but I don’t know if it results in more followthrough
Its easier to convince people who like you
People do not automatically pick up on your thought process as you go through it, being rational often looks like being insightful
Corroborated by both:
Being nice and encouraging to people who are helping you makes it more likely for them to help in the future
It helps to give people specific advice about what to do/how to apply something, at least at first
There’s a difference between getting someone to agree with something, and getting them to follow through on that belief
People need to want to learn something, being positive and upbeat in your presentation is more effective than downbeat, scary, or guilt-tripping