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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"message content"”.
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Determination of the message content for educating the public about the health education profession
The purpose of this study was to identify the contents of a marketing message that health educators need to transmit to the public about their profession. A questionnaire, developed by the researcher, was used to determine the message content. Four decision questions were asked of all participants. …
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Processing of Behavior-Related Communications as a Function of Cognitive Elaboration: A Multiple-Stage Model
… into account. Participants received a persuasive message advocating support of a referendum to institute comprehensive examinations at their university. When participants were able and motivated to concentrate on the message content, they computed their beliefs in the arguments presented and …
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DPP: Dual Path PKI for Secure Aircraft Data Communication
… methods or the ability to check the integrity of message content. This opens the door for hackers to potentially create fraudulent messages or manipulate message content. This thesis presents a solution to handling many of the potential security issues in aircraft data communication. This is …
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Task based performance feedback and subsequent worker performance
… on investigation of the effects of feedback message characteristics to explain variance in individual's post feedback predicted performances. Results of this research have not been well integrated within existing performance feedback models. The present study was conducted to assess the …
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Classroom Discourse as Linguistic Input: A Study of Student Participation, Percentage of French Used in Class, and the Communicative Orientation of Classroom Activities in Six Second-Semester French Classes
… conditions--a well-adjusted target-language message, the acquirer's attention, and focus on message content--for an optimal language-acquisition environment. The study looked at each condition in the discourse of six second-semester French classes and at the extent and circumstances of their …
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Cue the disgust: the effect of smoking cues and disgusting images in anti-tobacco advertisements on smokers' and nicotine-withdrawn smokers' psychophysiological responses, smoking urges, and intent to quit smoking
… (disgust images) in a single anti-tobacco message (smoking cue/high disgust message) created cognitive dissonance for both non-withdrawn smokers and nicotine-withdrawn smokers between urges to smoke and intentions to quit. To reduce cognitive dissonance, both non-withdrawn smokers and …
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Analisis pengaruh pesan iklan televisi terhadap pengambilan keputusan pembelian pada sabun deterjen Rinso: Studi pada masyarakat Kelurahan Merjosari RW 12 Kecamatan Lowokwaru Malang
… to know the effect of television advertising message (message content, message format, message source) simultaneously, partially although dominantly on purchase decision of Rinso detergent soap. Variable that used on this research consist of dependent variable and independent variable. …
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The elaboration likelihood model and the role of affect
… process a highly involving counterattitudinal message. Depressed and elated students were exposed to either a strong or weak set of highly involving arguments supporting a countersttitudinal appeal emanating from a source of either high or low credibility. Based upon a review of the mood …
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Extradyadic Communication with Friends about Negative Relational Events in Romantic Relationships: Development of a Measure and Implications for Friendship and Romantic Relationship Functioning
… develop and validate measures of the motives and content of romantic partners' and friends' extradyadic communication about negative relational events in romantic relationships, (b) investigate relational and partner characteristics as predictors of extradyadic communication, and (c) examine the …
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THE EFFECT OF RELIGIOUS AND NON-RELIGIOUS CONTENT IN SOCIAL SUPPORT MESSAGES
… participants’ evaluations of social support messages that vary on both religious content and communicative medium, as well as collect religious demographics and several religious measures. The study sample contained 221 participants recruited from Amazon Mturk. Participants were asked to …
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Engaging Consumers: A Content Analysis of Facebook Wall Posts
… conversations. This research study examines the message content of wall posts for the five top Facebook product-? marketing campaigns. It looks at the components of each message -text, photo, video, and links - and tracks the correlating audience engagement. The higher the audience engagement, …
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Audit and Compilation Report Timeliness in Local Governments: an Empirical Investigation of Mississippi Governmental Entities That Exceed State Reporting Deadlines
… impact on audit timeliness of (1) report message content and managerial competency, (2) accountability, and (3) the audit environment. The results of the study indicate that the areas of report message content and managerial competency as well as the audit environment both play an …
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Source credibility and the persuasiveness of public saftey messages communicated via social media
… were asked to view simulated public safety messages presented within a social media channel, and then complete a short survey assessing the credibility and persuasiveness of the messages they viewed. The 2x2 factorial post-test only experiment found that within social media, organizational …
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The Message or The Messenger: The Effects of Political Attitudes and Source on Perceptions of Media Bias
… What holds more weight when evaluating news messages: the message (content) or the messenger (source)?
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Understanding Attitudes toward In-Vitro Fertilization and Support for Less Restrictive In-Vitro Fertilization Policies: The Influence of Family, Information Processing, Media, and Science
… support toward assisted reproduction, and how message content can persuade individuals to hold more favorable attitudes and support, respectively. The first study recruited undergraduate students from two mid-sized universities and asked participants to complete an online study for course …
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An Analysis of Environmental Advertising Frames from 1990 to 2010
… understand the relationships between media message content, message construction, and audience effects. This thesis analyzed environmental advertising frames over time to inform strategic environmental communication research and practice. The study was a media content analysis guided by …
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Linguistic Predictors of Peer Responsiveness in an Online Cancer Support Group
… communities. Previous research suggests that message content, selfdisclosure, and emotional expression may be central to this process. The purpose of this study was to identify linguistic and qualitative characteristics of participants.' Messages that predict how other participants respond in …
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Investigating Determinants of Collaboration between Landowners and Wildlife Agencies for Endangered Species Conservation
… Houston toad habitat to identify communication content and framing that influenced ESC attitudes and behavioral intention and created typologies of landowners to identify the preferred communication characteristics of different landowner types. In investigating the ideal conditions of …
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Message framing and physical activity: One size fits all versus a tailored approach
<p>Message framing (i.e., emphasis on gains or losses) is a communication strategy that has been used to promote physical activity (PA). Previous research has led to inconsistent results regarding the persuasive effect of gains and losses. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore whether a …
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An Analysis of a Public Health Media Campaign in Switzerland
… between audiences, media channels and ecology, message content, and targeting strategies. Competing theories explain media effects on health behaviours but there is a dearth of research examining upstream planning and stakeholder perceptions of media campaigns. In effect, interactions between …
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