Advertising and Marketing, Acting and Performance, Johnstone - Status Transactions, Status and Prestige
We Are All Just Squabbling Ducks Previously, I have remarked on an area of interpersonal dynamics called the Status Transaction. This concept comes from one of the fathers of improv theatre. It says that humans, just like other pack animals, communicate in subtle...
Advertising and Marketing, Acting and Performance, Cialdini - Weapons of Influence, Status and Prestige
Why Is it that you always seem to be wanting what you can’t have? I was walking a friend of mine home the other day, and she was telling me about the kinds of men she had been meeting recently. We started talking about it always seems you’re wanting what...
Acting and Performance, Johnstone - Status Transactions, Shurtleff - Twelve Guideposts
Most of the writing in this forum has to do with social and marketing psychology, but I want to make sure and devote time to acting and directing technique as well. I consider them relevant to “People-triggers” in two ways: Broader knowledge of how people...
Acting and Performance, Advertising and Marketing, Johnstone - Status Transactions, Social Psychology
Now that I’m finally done with the Cialdini posts, I’m free to do what bloggers are supposed to do: re-blog other people’s stuff. You know, in the hopes that their cool insights will somehow make me cool by association. I wanted to do a post on the...
Acting and Performance, Advertising and Marketing, Cialdini - Weapons of Influence, Johnstone - Status Transactions, Status and Prestige
So far in this six-part article, we’ve covered three of Dr. Robert Cialdini’s six “weapons of influence”: Reciprocity, Commitment/Consistency, and Social Proof. The next weapon is, in my opinion, the most powerful and psychologically...
