Influence: Dewey Decimal Number for the New and Expanded Edition

Three connected subjects, three reading questions

Influence and persuasion both appear with psychology qualifications in the catalogue. Compliance is listed separately. Together, these headings can help a reader distinguish a broad effect on another person, an attempt to persuade, and a response to a request. Those distinctions are useful reading questions rather than definitions imposed on every use of the words. When examining a passage, identify what the author describes as changing and whose perspective the example follows. The subject list directs attention to these questions without reducing the work to a business label.

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A student researching communication might focus on the form of an appeal, while another researching behavior might focus on the resulting action. Both can find a connection to this record. To compare their readings, identify whether a passage concerns belief, a decision, or an observable response and what evidence is supplied. The catalogue does not make those outcomes equivalent. Reading the three subjects together gives a more precise route into the book than assuming that the title means every kind of social power or every aspect of marketing.

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What makes the expanded edition worth identifying?

Cialdini’s official books page presents the new and expanded Influence with seven principles and identifies unity as new to that edition. It also describes the work as addressing ethical applications and recognition of unethical influence attempts. This is a concise statement of the author’s intended coverage. A course that specifically assigns the expanded discussion should therefore identify the edition, rather than relying on a shortened title or a summary of an earlier version. The catalogue’s precise edition statement provides the publication check for that request.

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The presence of added material creates a practical citation issue. If a seminar asks readers to discuss a principle or example associated with the expanded edition, participants should establish that their copies contain it before comparing pages. A reading note can identify the assigned edition and the section actually discussed. The selected record supports that edition identity, but it does not supply a complete comparison of every earlier version. The useful response is to verify the required publication, not to assume that every product carrying the word Influence has identical contents.

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Compare persuasion with judgment and decision making

Thinking, Fast and Slow provides a related but distinct catalogue route. Its selected Harvard record reports 153.42 and identifies thought, decision making, intuition, and reasoning. Influence reports 153.852 with persuasion, psychological influence, and compliance. A reading group can use that contrast to distinguish a question about how a judgment is formed from a question about an attempt to affect another person’s response. The topics can intersect, but the catalogue evidence does not establish that the books use the same model or answer the same research question.

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A concrete comparative exercise would select one passage from each book and identify the decision maker, the information available, and the social interaction, if any. Readers can then examine how each author supports an explanation. This keeps the comparison tied to actual texts rather than treating similar-looking decimal numbers as an intellectual family tree. The two numbers are verified observations from selected records. Their usefulness here is to anchor the publications while the subject headings help formulate a question for close reading.

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Persuasion is not the same reading task as habit change

Atomic Habits supplies another informative contrast. Its selected Library of Congress record reports 155.24 and names habit, habit breaking, and behavior modification. Influence instead foregrounds persuasion and compliance. A reader choosing a book about behavior can ask whether the immediate interest is a recurring pattern of action or the response to a request or appeal. These are different starting points, even if a discussion later finds connections. The actual records support that distinction without inventing a single classification for every book about changing behavior.

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For a communication course, the three-book comparison can be organised around judgment, persuasion, and recurring behavior. Each title then has a stated role in the reading list. Students can compare passages where the topics overlap while keeping author, edition, and claim separate. That structure is more informative than treating a shelf of popular psychology as one uniform argument. It also makes the selected Influence edition useful as an identified source for a particular discussion rather than a generic authority invoked whenever someone says a message is persuasive.

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The hardcover and ebook are separate search results

The saved Library of Congress response contains two relevant records. The selected hardcover record includes 9780062937650 as valid and puts 9780062937674 in its cancelled or invalid ISBN field. The electronic record has the reverse relationship and describes an online resource. Both contain the same Dewey value, but their publication descriptions are not interchangeable. This is a useful example of why an ISBN search must inspect the valid identifier field and the individual record, rather than treating the first occurrence of the digits in a response as a match.

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For the selected hardcover, the catalogue gives nineteen preliminary pages and 568 numbered pages with illustrations, published by Harper Business in 2021. Its scheme edition is recorded separately as 23. The long book-edition statement identifies the expanded hardcover; the scheme-edition value identifies the classification system information. Keep those roles separate in an inventory or syllabus. A completed entry can then identify the exact publication, report 153.852 with its source, and describe its persuasion-related subjects without borrowing the details of an ebook or an earlier version.

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Sources for this edition guide

1. Library of Congress: Influence, LCCN 2020058532
2. Robert Cialdini / Influence at Work: official books and publications
3. Harvard Library: Thinking, fast and slow, record 990129478470203941
4. Library of Congress: Atomic habits, LCCN 2018377469