I think I often fall for this persuasive method and I see it being utilized the most on social media to promote beauty products or health tricks. Dermatologists will use their uniforms to persuade audiences when promoting products, people who give fitness advice will usually be using work out clothes even if they are not necessarily doing excerize in the video.

I can actually attest to this. I was quite the job hopper for a small period of time and got hired in like ten different places within a month. I would go to many interviews like crazy and quickly started learning the tricks to get hired! It was amazing practice, I would almost get into this character that was super confident, friendly and direct when in real life I am super awkward. The more outgoing and interested you sound the more likely it is you will get hired anywhere! Many employers prefer personality over skill, it’s kind of crazy how many roles I was unqualified for and still got hired

One of the theories I’ve heard of the most on this topic is called “Halo Theory” in which we attribute qualities to people that are attractive. I think this is true but I never considered it as something “persuasive”. I guess one of the ways in which attractive people could be considered persuasive or in which people use attractiveness in a persuasive way is in South Korea (obviously not everyone!) since most jobs used to require photos, it seems a lot of companies perhaps unconsciously would hire attractive people the most. A lot of people theorized this is why many south koreans felt pressured to get plastic surgery.

https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/stanford-scholar-traces-roots-south-koreas-cosmetic-surgery-surge

Hello. I am Luna. I went to Woodland High School. Our mascot was a wolf. I first wanted to be an investigate journalist (mexican organized crime) but that’s a suicidal career so I am sticking with PR!