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Factors Affecting Persuasion

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What factors affect persuasion and which one has the biggest influence? Why do you think so? (Reply in 200 words or more and provide reference)

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Persuasion occurs when a person causes someone else to change. The change may either be to their inner mental systems or to their external behavior. Inner systems include values, attitude, beliefs, schema, goals. The change may creation of something new, or extinguishing or modifying something that already exists.

Elements of persuasion include:

* Intent: We usually persuade intentionally, but we can also accidentally persuade. In ...

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