You are trying to get your friend to help you move furniture this weekend. Choose three different compliance-gaining strategies and write out what you will say for each strategy. Which one do you think will be the most successful? Why?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary but will come from the six strategies: Reciprocation, commitment, authority, social validation, scarcity, and liking.

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