Name: Arturo Hernández's review of Invisible Influence by Jonah Berger
Item: Invisible Influence
Rating: 3
Author: Arturo Hernández

Jonah Berger

The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make—from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat—in this fascinating and groundbreaking work. If you’re like most people, you think that your choices and behaviors are driven by your individual, personal tastes, and opinions. You wear a certain jacket because you liked the way it looked. You picked a particular career because you found it interesting. The notion that our choices are driven by our own personal thoughts and opinions is patently obvious. Right? Wrong. Without our realizing it, other people’s behavior has a huge influence on everything we do at every moment of our lives, from the mundane to the momentous occasion. Even strangers have a startling impact on our judgments and decisions: our attitudes toward a welfare policy shift if we’re told it is supported by Democrats versus Republicans (even though the policy is the same in both cases). But social influence doesn’t just lead us to do the same things as others. In some cases we conform, or imitate others around us. But in other cases we diverge, or avoid particular choices or behaviors because other people are doing them. We stop listening to a band because they go mainstream. We skip buying the minivan because we don’t want to look like a soccer mom. In his surprising and compelling Invisible Influence, Jonah Berger integrates research and thinking from business, psychology, and social science to focus on the subtle, invisible influences behind our choices as individuals. By understanding how social influence works, we can decide when to resist and when to embrace it—and how we can use this knowledge to make better-informed decisions and exercise more control over our own behavior.

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Invisible Influence

Ketan Nayak

Explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make--from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat.

The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Arturo Hernández

We are social beings by excellence and we are constantly shaped by the people around us. Whether we like it or not, we are influenced by situations, things, people and once you realize that you can really start taking advantage of your own nature.

The overall idea of the book is good however its execution could be more cohesive. It feels like a draft version of the book several times during its lecture.

Mallory Foutch

meh. limited research, seemed like a text of generalizations with limited "a-ha" moments the author may have been searching for.

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