Our findings show, for the first time, that this sensitization extends to attempts to persuade relatively low-risk individuals that they nevertheless need to improve in order to meet challenging guidelines.
While there is little evidence that adopting a target directly influences how fast the public expects prices to rise, he said, "I am relatively more persuaded that inflation targeting helps reduce the variance of inflation expectations".
He showed that in a social structure with recognised lines of authority, ordinary people could be relatively easily persuaded to give what seemed to be even lethal electric shocks to another randomly chosen person [1], [2].
Research has persuaded him that before a point relatively late in pregnancy, the fetus is unable to perceive pain.
And in relatively short order, the accumulating evidence persuaded other states, including Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Wisconsin, to join the investigation because the documents had stunned them.
A relatively tiny scene, in which Rob persuaded Helen to change her dress (because he thought her own choice too provocative), caught listeners' imagination.
As chairman of a relatively new baroque opera company, I persuaded my fellow board directors that Pergolesi's Adriano should be our third major revival.
Science depends on meticulous, careful work; how can reviewers and panelists be persuaded to favor radical, half-assed (though perhaps brilliant) ideas presented (relatively) poorly?
Just over 30 years ago, a skeptical Daniel Patrick Moynihan persuaded his Senate colleagues to approve a major study to see whether a relatively unknown phenomenon called acid rain was worth worrying about.
As a consequence, getting the public out to vote for a highly-paid and relatively remote politician, to tackle a democratic deficit they weren't persuaded they had, was always going to be a hard sell.
