Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.

Attempts to destroy AI to stop a superintelligence from taking over the world are unlikely to work. Humans may have to ...

Because persuasion lies squarely at the center of leadership, of changing minds and making decisions, an emotional process is central to what successful leaders do.

Persuasion is the last novel that Jane Austen completed and it was published posthumously in 1817. At the age of 19, Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a haughty baronet, ...

The art of persuasion isn’t the employment of a Jedi mind trick. Rather, it is a method you can use to move someone to your side of the argument and further the sales cycle.

Persuasion is fundamentally different because it relies on understanding what smoking does to the human body. Someone who’s persuaded of its dangers has an incentive to stop that’s entirely ...

“Persuasion,” the novel, is a text that lends itself to little irony. It is an earnest tale of love lost and reclaimed, not so much a comedy or a sweeping romance as it is a character study.

The trailer for “Persuasion,” the debut feature from the British theater director Carrie Cracknell, landed in mid-June. Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the ...

Netflix has released the first trailer for “Persuasion,” the upcoming period film starring Dakota Johnson, based on the classic 1817 Jane Austen novel. Published after Austen’s death ...

Bayesian persuasion is an idea only a little more than a decade old that’s being used to study phenomena as varied as advertising, the law, bond ratings and parking enforcement.