Concept information
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industrial psychology
organizational structure, design, and change
organizational behavior
leadership theory
Preferred term
influence (psychology)
Definition
- Influence is referred to as the purposeful set of actions that one exerts to change the attitude, belief, or behavior of another. Influence is a term that theorists have used, predominantly in the management literature, to describe behaviors using interpersonal power. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Influence]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- compliance
- conformity
- debiasing
- door-in-the-face technique
- fear appeals
- foot-in-the-door technique
- forced compliance
- forewarning
- heuristic-systematic model of persuasion
- informational influence
- ingratiation
- ingratiator's dilemma
- inoculation theory
- mere exposure effect
- milgram's obedience to authority studies
- minority influence
- normative influence
- persuasion
- prescriptive and descriptive norms
- reactance
- reciprocity norm
- resisting persuasion
- scarcity principle
- sleeper effect
- social influence
- social power
- stealing thunder
- supplication
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/influence_(psychology)
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