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SUMMARY:Messengers: Who We Listen To\, Who We Don't\, And Why - Joseph Mar
 ks
DTSTART:20191127T150000Z
DTEND:20191127T160000Z
UID:TALK128878@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Melisa B
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world where proven facts and verifiable data are 
 freely and widely available. Why\, then\, are so many self-confident ignor
 amuses believed? Why are thoughtful experts so often dismissed? And why do
  seemingly irrelevant details such as a person’s height\, relative wealt
 h\, or Facebook photo influence whether or not we trust what they are sayi
 ng? In this talk I will discuss why people so often attend to characterist
 ics of the messenger\, rather than the content of the message\, when decid
 ing whom to listen to. In particular\, I will show how the perceived statu
 s of a messenger\, and the level of connectedness others feel towards them
 \, influence how persuasive their messages will be.\n\n\n_Joseph Marks\, M
 Sc.\, is an experimental psychologist and co-author of the book Messengers
 : Who We Listen To\, Who We Don’t\, And Why (with Stephen Martin). He is
  currently a doctoral researcher at University College London\, a visiting
  researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and an Associat
 e Consultant for INFLUENCE AT WORK (UK). His work has featured in The New 
 York Times\, Guardian\, and the Harvard Business Review. Joseph holds an u
 ndergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Birmingham and a 
 Master’s degree in Social Cognition from University College London. His 
 research with INFLUENCE AT WORK has been applied across a variety of busin
 ess and public policy settings\, including financial regulation\, healthca
 re\, and public transport._\n
LOCATION:Lecture Room\, Department of Psychology\, Downing Site\, Cambridg
 e
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