Editing Promise (section)

==Psychology==
Promises are compared with threats by Verbrugge, Dieussaert, Schaeken and William.<ref>[https://www.proquest.com/docview/200348761 Promise is debt, threat another matter: the effect of credibility on the interpretation of conditional promises and threats. ''Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology'', 58(2), 106–112.]</ref> When a threat or promise is conditional, it tends to receive biconditional interpretation. Also, both threats and promises are highly controlled by the speaker. The fundamental difference is the valence of the prospective action on the speaker's part. In the case of a promise it is generally positive while in the case of a threat it is negative. There is some evidence to suggest that threats are perceived simply as negative promises.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wray|first1=Helen|last2=Wood|first2=Jeffrey S.|last3=Haigh|first3=Matthew|last4=Stewart|first4=Andrew J.|date=2016-07-03|title=Threats may be negative promises (but warnings are more than negative tips)|journal=Journal of Cognitive Psychology|volume=28|issue=5|pages=593–600|doi=10.1080/20445911.2016.1152972|s2cid=148226764|issn=2044-5911|url=http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/26372/2/Wray%20Wood%20Haigh%20and%20Stewart_revision_submitted.pdf}}</ref> However, promises are often made with an intent on the speaker's part to convince a hearer to do something by holding out the prospect of a reward; threats by contrasts are often made with an intent to influence a hearer's behavior by holding out the prospect of a punishment.  In addition, certain characteristics of promises and threats, such as "magnitude" and "credibility", affect the probability that the target will gain compliance or failure.<ref>[[DeLamater John D.]] & Meyers J. Daniels. Social Psychology. Wadsworth Publishing; 7 edition, 2010, p. 212</ref>
Promises can fall under many different categories, however they will have two key components. The type of activity that the promises undertakes to do, and the content of the promise. Promises can give us both the security that something is being fully guaranteed and the stress that you are guaranteeing something that cannot be verified at that given moment. This can create both a positive and a negative effect on our minds.<ref name = PsychologyToday>{{cite web|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-name-love/201102/promise-me-youll-try|title=Promise me you'll try|website=Psychology Today|access-date=26 April 2018}}</ref>