TY - BOOK AU - Overstreet,H.A. TI - Influencing human behavior AV - BF 637 .C45 Ov2 1925 PY - 1925/// CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Company, Inc KW - INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS KW - INFLUENCE KW - INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION N1 - Includes index; I. the key problem : capturing the attention -- II. the appeal to wants -- III. the problem of vividness -- IV. the psychology of effective speaking -- V. The psychology of effective writing -- VI. Crossing the interest dead- line -- VII. making ideas stick -- VIII. how to change persons: the entering wedge -- IX. the building of habits: associative -- X. Our unconscious fabrication habits -- XI. the problem of straight thinking -- XII. diagnosing the public -- XIII. training the creative mind -- XIV. conflict and invention -- XV. The technique of humor -- XVI. the individual and his world -- ER -