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Linked are recent blog posts. The posts are meant to elaborate the concepts presented in the tutorial and/or stand in their own right as illustrations of influence phenomena. New posts will appear from time to time. Your comments are invited.

2023-03-01 Further to the Definition of Social Influence

2023-03-08 Observing the Influences All Around Us

2023-03-13 Explaining Greta Thunberg’s Influence

2023-03-27 What Can We Learn from the Famous Milgram Obedience Experiments?

2023-04-08 Social Influence by Manipulation

2023-04-24 Explaining Billy Graham’s Influence

2023-05-02 Social Control of the Brain

2023-05-20 Social Control of the Brain 2: Psychoactive Drug-Taking

2023-06-06 Social Control of the Brain 3: Surgery and Non-Invasive Techniques

2023-06-19 Lying: The 500 Pound Gorilla in the Room of Social Influence

The wisdom of the ancient Greeks regarding social influence…

2024-09-03 Socrates on Social Influence

2024-09-05 Plato on Social Influence

2024-09-10 Aristotle on Social Influence

2024-11-21 Optimistic about Optimism

2025-02-24 How Influence Worked in the Soviet Union