How to get people to do what you want according to science

Whether it's getting your partner to do more housework or making your colleagues back your latest idea, we all end up spending a considerable amount of time trying to persuade or even manipulate others. So can science offer any clever tricks to get people to do what we want, without resorting to bullying them? In an article for The Conversation, Dr Harriet Dempsey-Jones, a postdoctoral researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences at University of Oxford explains the methods worth trying. Whether it's getting your partner to do more housework or making your colleagues back your latest idea, we all end up spending a considerable amount of time trying to persuade or even manipulate others (stock image) 'Misattribution of arousal' is a popular theory in social psychology that suggests people sometimes mislabel feelings from their body. It involves manipulating individuals into thinking they are experiencing particular emotions, such as believing they are attracted when they're actually scared, Somewhat counter-intuitively, if you want to get something from someone – you should give them something yourself.