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Showing 1 to 20 of 508 for “"Persuasion"”.
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BRICS: strategies of persuasion
… appeals, its strategies and tactics of persuasion. The study employs a critical rhetorical analysis to explore publically available primary documentation emanating from high-level BRICS meetings. Three analytical chapters assess this corpus, conceptually distinguished as programmatic …
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A Spinozan model of persuasion
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Communication, 2010
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Design: Encouraging Sustainability Through Persuasion
… and design commercialization, the techniques of persuasion were studied. It is to figure out how to incorporate hot triggers into computational technologies. As an outcome of the study, the final deliverable is a social networking application that provides sustainable product reviews. Instead of …
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Eric Hoffer's Theory of Mass Persuasion
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:56:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114673.pdf: 7951426 bytes, checksum: d9819f8cecdc6e67fefa6f3382bc4810 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Theatre Attendance: Media and Interpersonal Communication in Persuasion
… interpersonal communication in the process of persuasion as it relates to attending performing arts events. This study uses published research and the author’s pilot study to examine dissemination of information. The three main theories used are Katz and Lazarsfeld’s Two-Step Flow of …
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From persuasion to negotiation in health promoting technology
… its prescriptive paradigm. As an alternative to persuasion, this thesis offers negotiation as a potential model for future innovations in this area.
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Jane Austen's Persuasion: A Study of Narrative Art
… reveals a new dimension of her narrative art; Persuasion contains qualities that resemble those of twentieth century stream-of-consciousness novels. The narrative technique of Persuasion as forerunner of the modern novel differs from Miss Austen’s other novels primarily in two aspects — in its …
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Misanthropy and persuasion: Test of a theoretical framework
… nature of the interplay between misanthropy and persuasion. Of special concern is the delineation of successful persuasion approaches given the validity of the underlying theoretical frame. A second major goal of this effort is to propose a series of studies designed to test theoretically-derived …
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Misinformation, Persuasion, and News Media on Social Networks
… two aspects of user behavior through the lens of persuasion: (1) sharing online news, and (2) consumer choice of news media. The first part focuses on the dissemination of online news on social media platforms such as Twitter. I propose two frameworks: in the first I focus on non-strategic agents …
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KIVA.ORG'S PERSUASIVE APPEAL: A BURKEAN ANALYSIS OF CHARITY PERSUASION
Kiva.org's (Kiva) success is explained using two rhetorical constructs based on Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism as tailored to charity appeals: simplification (reducing of the representative anecdote) and completion (redeeming a hierarchy). These two constructs explain Kiva's unprecedented …
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Utilizing biblical persuasion techniques in preaching without being manipulative
This dissertation examines the difference between persuasion and manipulation in preaching. The focus of this work will be demonstrating the need for the pure motives of the messenger. Additionally, discovering and exhibiting the pathos of Scripture emerges as an essential ingredient of powerful …
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The Effects of Familiarity and Persuasion on Risk Assessment
… the result of influences from outside sources (persuasion bias). Research suggests that familiarity-based bias may lead to acceptance of an activity's drawbacks and a leniency of its risks.</p> <p>In addition, research has tried to measure and analyze different types of biases individually, but …
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See It Now vs McCarthyism : dimensions of documentary persuasion
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 01/01/2106] "Statement of the Problem: The purpose of this study is to make a historical investigation using Wayne Brockriede's dimensional paradigm of the following CBS "See It Now" broadcasts: "The Case of Lieutenant Milo Radulovich," October 20, 1953, "Argument at Indianapolis," …
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Countervailing Forces: The Impact of Persuasion on Political Policyaking
<p>The American public in contemporary times has been inadequately served in political policymaking due to increasing influence from well-funded lobbyists of special interest groups. To argue this point, a case study of health care reform is provided to exemplify that legislation for the “common …
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Moral Matching: Strategic Messaging to Overcome Barriers to Persuasion
<p>Persuasive messages are often met with resistance. Message fatigue is a unique motivational state caused by excessive exposure to redundant messages, which leads to active and passive resistance towards persuasive messages. The consequences of active and passive resistance are particularly …
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The limits of persuasion: Strategic considerations of presidential governance
"The dissertation proposes three models of the presidency based on the variable nature of four ""strategic considerations"" of presidential politics. The strategic considerations include the timing of political benefits, the president's public identification with a policy, investment of political …
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Audience aware computational discourse generation for instruction and persuasion
… predecessor relationships in monarchies. On the persuasion side, my implementation models and simulates various different tellings of the classic fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" so as to make The Witch appear likable in one, and unlikable in another; to make The Woodcutter appear to be a good …
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