While everyone is influenced and persuaded daily in various ways, vulnerability to influence fluctuates. The ability to fend off persuaders is reduced when one is exhausted, rushed, stressed, uncertain, lonely, indifferent, uninformed, aged, very young, unsophisticated, ill, brain- damaged, drugged, drunk, distracted, fatigued, frightened, or very dependent.

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"Undue Influence and Written Documents: Psychological Aspects", Journal of Questioned Document Examination, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1992), the official publication of the Independent Association of Questioned Document Examiners, Inc.

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