In the current political climate, it can be hard to find any consensus around hot-button issues, like abortion and climate change. Many of us can be pretty rigid in our thinking and in our ...

Persuasive techniques or strategies in written and spoken form have been developed throughout time as ways to influence others. In the business world, being able to influence others is key to being ...

Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, are found to be more persuasive than humans 64% of the time in online debates when adapting their arguments on the basis of personalized information about ...

In the era of AI and instant gratification through video content, the timeless art of storytelling remains a powerful tool to prime and engage jurors' emotions and intellects. In the opening statement ...

Persuasion is part art and part science. There are many data-based strategies to successfully create persuasive communication. That's the science. Likewise, there are just as many techniques for ...

Suddenly, the world is abuzz with chatter about chatbots. Artificially intelligent agents, like ChatGPT, have shown themselves to be remarkably adept at conversing in a very human-like fashion.

Statue of Aristotle at the Athens Academy in Greece.. Photo: Getty Images What does a man born in 384 BCE have to teach the modern writer? A lot. When I teach persuasive writing, participants are ...

Winning an argument may boil down to one simple tactic: Getting people to listen to you. That's according to five TED Talk speakers, whose backgrounds — from business and law to journalism and ...

Rap is often treated as background music for workouts, commutes, or parties. In a classroom context, it can look like “just entertainment.” Yet rap lyrics are built on the same foundations students ...