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012 - Trump, Persuasion and Hypnosis

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Channel: Kevin deLaplante · 2016 · Education

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In episode 012 of the podcast I take up the question that Scott Adams has framed for us: is Donald Trump some kind of "master persuader" who uses persuasion techniques familiar to anyone trained in hypnosis? And is this the reason why he won the election?

In this episode: 

- A plug to help me build the Argument Ninja Academy

- Scott Adams on Donald Trump: Master Persuader

- "Pacing and leading", Milton Erickson and hypnosis

- Confusion and hypnotic suggestibility

- Confusion and self-defense

- Confusion and the "Chewbacca Defense"

- Derren Brown: how to steal with hypnosis

- Hypnosis stage acts and the spectrum of hypnotizability

- Why Scott Adams was confident that Trump would win

- Is Trump a master persuader?

- Thinking critically about persuasion schools and persuasion science

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