Robert Cialdini

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Robert Cialdini, 2009

Robert Beno Cialdini (born April 27, 1945 ) is an American psychologist and emeritus professor of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University and managing director of the consulting firm Influence at Work.

His best known book, The Psychology of Persuasion , sold over three million copies and has been translated into thirty languages. His book Pre-suasion: How you win before the trial was published in German in February 2017.

Cialdini considers his suggestions to be ethically justified, since he would write his books from the point of view of those who might be affected and thus enable them to recognize methods of social influence.

In 2018 Cialdini was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2019 to the National Academy of Sciences .

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