Emotional appeal are more effective than rational explanations at motivating people to quit DRAFT BB

Everyone has emotion no matter how hard we may try to hide it. Emotions can make us do many things we might not do normally like joining a basketball team because your friend is on it. Even if you are able to join a better team , you choose to join this team because of your emotions for your friend. Emotional appeals are more effective than rational explanations at motivating people to act. Emotional appeals can make people feel guilty and then do something they didn’t feel like doing. Rational explanations on the other hand can allow you to feel more confident but also the opposite. The facts can either motivate or depress.

Guilt can have a very strong effect on people. It makes people make different decisions that they would generally not do. If someone walked up to me and asked if I wanted to go to their party while my friend was right next to me. My decision would change depending if they ask my friend to go as well. If I went and my friend couldn't come it would make me feel guilty because I get to go while they don’t. So in this scenario I would probably not go, even if I really wanted to. Guilt’s strong effect on people makes it very easy for them to get motivated. If Bob asked Frank who normally never does anything physical to work out with him, Frank might do it. Frank might do it because he doesn’t want Bob to be alone. In this process Bob is motivating Frank by guilting him to work out with him.

Rational explanations can be very motivating when the facts are in favor of the person wanting to do something. Waiting for a reply after applying for a job can be tough. Although when you hear about the job allowing over 20 people to be hired, you get excited. The fact of success being more than you expected can really motivate people. It’s the same with diet programs. They have commercials that will say 50% of the customers were satisfied with our product and lost 50lbs+ of weight in less than a month. The percentage of 50 really makes you think you will lose the weight and because of the high percentage you will be motivated to buy it.

Ration explanations also can not be very motivating. Sometimes the numbers are just too small for you to get motivated. For example: A house in Surrey is very expensive for a young adult to buy. The expensive house could make the person interested in buying the house really depressed and might make them want to just give up. Others on the other hand with strong wills might just work harder and get the money. Although most people don’t put in the extra effort so they give up. That is why there's problems with rational explanations, depending on the circumstances people can lose all their motivation. Rational explanations can be good but they're generally not.

Emotional appeal is more effective than rational explanations. Although rational explanations do give motivation, they also do the opposite. The most effective way to motivate someone is through guilt. They will be not forced to do something but it will feel that way for them, making the perfect motivation to do something.