17 Psychological Tricks That ALWAYS Work!

Today we learn about psychology tricks that are proven to work. Do not try to manipulate or persuade people in bad ways. That behavior is never approved and will lead down a bad path. Instead, understand these psychological tricks from a fun and educational point of view, and understand when someone might be trying to use them on you!

Sources:
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/suz/dam/jcr:ffffffff-fad3-547b-ffff-ffffe54d58af/10.18_kahneman_tversky_81.pdf

Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions
http://www.cog.brown.edu/courses/cg195/pdf_files/fall07/Kahneman&Tversky1986.pdf

The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41121

What to Do with Your Hands When You Speak
https://www.inc.com/sabina-nawaz/3-things-to-do-with-your-hands-when-you-speak.html

Why You Want to Be Wanted
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/we-are-what-we-make/201411/i-want-be-wanted

Sounds True to Me: the Rhyme as Reason Effect
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199809/sounds-true-me

Authority Bias: Too Much Obedience Might Make You do Stupid Things
https://medium.com/coffee-and-junk/cognitive-bias-authority-bias-5e0e10ee677c

The Bizarreness Effect: It’s Not Surprising, It’s Complex
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7738508

Von Restorff Revisited: Isolation, Generation, and Memory for Order
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12127312_Von_Restorff_Revisited_Isolation_Generation_and_Memory_for_Order

Primacy, Recency, and the von Restorff Effect
http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/aggleton/J%20Exp%20Psych%20-%20ABP%20-%2017%20-%2036-44.pdf

Music: “cute” and “ukulele” from Bensound.com

Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO), HowlingCreations for helping to create this video!