A Laboratory Demonstration of the Fraudulent Telemarketers’ 1-in-5 Prize Tactic1

Autor: Anthony R. Pratkanis, Todd Horvitz
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 32:310-317
ISSN: 0021-9029
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb00217.x
Popis: Two laboratory experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the 1-in-5 prize tactic for perpetrating telemarketing fraud crimes. Across these experiments, the 1-in-5 prize tactic (securing acquiescence to a request by misleading a person to believe that he or she has won a valuable prize) resulted in a 5-fold increase in compliance, including 100% yielding in conditions most similar to those used by fraudulent telemarketers. Possible psychological mechanisms underlying the tactic (including phantom fixation) are discussed.
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