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A philosopher’s 350-year-old trick to get people to change their minds is now backed up by psychologists

Blaise Pascal set out the most effective way to persuade someone, centuries before there was any formal study of persuasion.

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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

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