Reframing

Reframing is a valuable technique insofar as objective facts are often unchangeable, but the framing of facts is subject to alteration (Sherif and Hovland, l961; Sherman and Lynn, 1990).
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Excessive Control

Research indicates that excessive control efforts, such as attempts to rigidly suppress compulsive or food related thoughts or images (Polivy and Herman, 1987; Strauss, Doyle, and Kreipe, 1994), depressive thoughts (Segal, Williams, and Teasdale, 2002), and anxious moods (Mellinger and Lynn, 2003), can have quite the opposite effect. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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Foot in the door

Erickson capitalized on what social psychologists (see Dillard, 1991) have dubbed the ‘foot in the door tactic,’ which begins by getting compliance with a small request and then advances to a related, larger request.
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Positive vs negative feedback

In general, positive feedback is rated by clients as more credible and helpful (Martin and Jacobs, 1980). However, when individuals suffer from low self-esteem, they do not judge positive feedback to be especially accurate, because it is not consistent with their negative self-perceptions (McNulty and Swann, 1991).
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A little flower

"Men," said the fox. "They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise

chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens?"

"No," said the little prince. "I am looking for friends. What does that mean--'tame'?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."

"'To establish ties'?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just

like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your

part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand

other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique

in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ."

"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower . . . I think that

she has tamed me . . ."

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Responsibility

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose . . ."

"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

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Tame

"Please--tame me!" he said.[The fox]
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not
much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to
understand."
"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men
have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready
made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy
friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend,
tame me . . ."

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