Influence

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Influence or influencer may refer to:

• Social influence, in social psychology, influence in interpersonal relationships
  • Minority influence, when the minority affect the behavior or beliefs of the majority
• Influencer marketing, through individuals that have influence over potential buyers

Science and technology

• Sphere of influence (astrodynamics), the region around a celestial body in which it is the primary gravitational influence on orbiting objects
• Sphere of influence (black hole), a region around a black hole in which the gravity of the black hole dominates that of the host galaxy's bulge

Politics

• Undue influence, in contract law, where one person takes advantage of a position of power over another person
• Sphere of influence, in political science, an area over which a state or organization has some indirect control
• Agent of influence, an agent of some stature who uses his or her position to influence public opinion or decision making to produce results beneficial to the country whose intelligence service operates the agent
• Office of Strategic Influence, a short-lived U.S. government department

Film and theatre

• Influence (play), a 2005 play by David Williamson
• "Influence" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), a 2006 American television episode

Music

• Influence (band), a rock band formed in the 1960s
• Influence (Ardijah album), a 1996 album by the New Zealand group Ardijah
• Influence, a 1992 album by Little Caesar
• Influence (Sister Machine Gun album), a 2003 album by Sister Machine Gun
• "Influence", a song by Tove Lo from Lady Wood
• Influencer (song), a 2017 single from Japanese group Nogizaka46

Other uses

• Driving under the influence, the criminal act of driving while intoxicated
• Influence: Science and Practice, and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion; two books by Robert Cialdini

See also

• The Influence (disambiguation)
• Persuasion
• Manipulation (disambiguation)