Talk:Social influence
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Social Influence - how people are influenced and or motivated by others has 3 key elements. All people are motivated by fear, reward and love. Motivation through the use of "fear" is largely negative in nature, based upon self-preservation and provides little or no discretionary effort. People are looking to get out of any environment dominated by fear motivation and those that use fear as a motivational tool will constantly need to increase the energy they expend on fear motivation as their subjects will get numb or use to the threats/fear being utilized. Motivation through the use of "rewards" is largely positive in nature, based upon self-gratification and provides a medium range of discretionary effort on the part of the one being motivated. Reward motivation however has 2 major drawbacks, one - as people obtain more position and wealth, rewards must be increased just to maintain the same level of motivation and two - the same reward over time becomes an expectation and results in a deminishing return. Motivation through the use of "love" is entirely positive in nature, based upon selfless acts and provides for an infinite amount of discretionary effort by the one motivated by same. Selfless acts where one is truly looking out for another, and putting their needs and wellbeing ahead of one-self, create trust. "Usually people of good genes (looks), significant sums of money, good jobs and so on will possess social influence on other, "ordinary" people."
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Alright, this thing really needs a retouching. And I'm not going to do it. Yeah, maybe I'll add a couple of thing, but I'm not good enough. RaphaelFaunus 05:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
