Appeal to feelings

Appeal to feelings — the formation of the necessary feelings and influence on people through the appeal to certain feelings that are important to them.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The appeal to feelings can occur both openly (“I appeal to your feelings”) and hidden: through the mechanisms of involvement, infection and suggestion.​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Open appeal to feelings and experiences is used to:

• for tasks of inducement or coercion to certain actions

This appeal to feelings is called motivation. When motivation does not work, other methods of influence are used, see →

• for the tasks of education

Appeal to feelings forms the right attitudes and values. This must be taken into account. that, while effective, appealing to a child’s feelings works for many, but not all, children. The most difficult and intelligent children remember their goals, and appealing to feelings does not change them. In these cases, the appeal to feelings should be supplemented by other means of pedagogical influence. See →

Yuri Kosagovsky. From my experience

I realized this when I realized that my mother’s appeals to my logic had no effect on me. The “material interest” to which all and sundry people appeal all the time — economists … philosophers … politicians and showmen did not affect either. I was offered 5 dollars for her five — but this system did not work.

I was affected only by the sighs of my mother and the history that made an impression on me.

Until now, I slightly personify myself with the heroes of the books that I read as a child (they have an emotional and lasting effect on me).

Mother’s arguments that I would be a janitor if I studied poorly did not affect me, but her sighs did.

One day, sitting on a stool, she sighed and said: “Oh, Rachmaninoff’s prelude in C sharp minor…—what thing?” — and I spent 10 years at the conservatory instead of five (!) trying to understand — what is it?

For this, dreams also affect our impressionability and guide us and encourage us to act or, on the contrary, to beware, to act where it is not necessary.

It was her single breath that made me play 11 hours a day at the piano for 10 years, but he didn’t let me go to music school and college, but he didn’t allow me to talk to teachers at the conservatory. It was he who made me figure it out myself in 10 years — what is music and piano?

It was he who forced the producer to appear at my place, and it was he who forced the producer to drag me to the Paris Conservatory, where, at their request, I played my piano concerto and left the building as an honorary member of the Paris Conservatory — although I do not take in spirit any and the slightest «training ”, except for passion and love for music.

And it was my mother’s sigh that made some person invite me to the International Festival and perform there — I myself never go anywhere.

This is what emotions are and how they affect a person, and what are the consequences of the actions of other people. It’s just fantastic and effective. Efficient” is the most important thing. Everything that works effectively and evolution was necessary for the development of man for his survival.