low-ball technique

a procedure for enhancing compliance by first obtaining agreement to a request and then revealing the hidden costs of this request. Compliance to the target request is greater than would have been the case if these costs had been made clear at the time of the initial request. See also door-in-the-face technique; foot-in-the-door technique; that’s-not-all technique.

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Copernican theory

see heliocentric theory.