Genetic engineering: Rifkin's foot in the door

Getting your foot in the door.

Getting Your Foot in the Door:

The answer is nearly always that you can. But should you? That’s another question entirely. And, if you do, how do you go about it? Most lawyers know that the answer to the latter question, at the most basic level, is that you file a petition for a writ of certiorari. But, beyond that, many litigators have little or no experience with the nuts and bolts of how to prepare and file a “cert petiti...

Compliance without pressure: the foot-in-the-door technique.

2 experiments were conducted to test the proposition that once someone has agreed to a small request he is more likely to comply with a larger request. The 1st study demonstrated this effect when the same person made both requests. The 2nd study extended this to the situation in which different people made the 2 requests. Several experimental groups were run in an effort to explain these result...

Self-Concept Clarity and the Foot-in-the-Door Procedure

The deceptively simple foot-in-the-door technique is the oldest and most widely researched of the sequential-request compliance procedures investigated by social psychologists. Since its introduction by Freedman and Fraser (1966), the procedure has been examined in more than a hundred published studies and has been the topic of several reviews and meta-analyses (Beaman, Cole, Preston, Klentz, &...

Function of Religious Capital in the Acceptance of Genetic Engineering

Religions and religious schools have always been one of the main and fundamental factors in the creation and development of civilizations or their destruction. With the establishment of a religious government in Iran; based on the values of the Islamic Revolution, more attention was paid for science and technology. Iran is now praised for its continued growth in scientific publications during t...