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We will make you like our research: The development of a susceptibility-to-persuasion scale

Psychological and other persuasive mechanisms across diverse contexts are well researched, with many studies of the effectiveness of specific persuasive techniques on distinct types of human behaviour. In the present paper, our specific interest lies in the development of a generalized modular psych...

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Behavior
Biology and Life Sciences
Computer and Information Sciences
Computer security
Crime
Cybercrime
Cybersecurity
Decision making
Educational evaluation
Fraud
Human behavior
Impulsivity
Laboratories
Marketing
Personality
Persuasion
Physical Sciences
Psychology
Research and Analysis Methods
Research methodology
Researchers
Security
Self control
Social Sciences
Student retention
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