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The Effects of Persuasive Communication, Persuasive Communication With Group Discussion, and Persuasive Communication With Role-Playing on Changing The Attitude of Freshman and Sophomore Music Majors Toward Twelve-Tone Music
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IMPROVING CHRONIC ILLNESS MEDICATION ADHERENCE: A COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING-BASED MODEL OF PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION
… To help build more evidence on how effective communication can be used to promote drug adherence for patients who have been diagnosed with chronic illness, this research tested the effectiveness of counterfactual thinking as a message design strategy aimed at increasing drug adherence among …
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The effects of auditor-client relationships, auditor-auditor relationships, and persuasive communication on auditor's' objectivity
… and auditor-client relationships and persuasive communication on judgment at different experience levels. Experiment 1 was a 2 (affective states induced by client: positive vs. negative) X 2 (affective states induced by partner: less aggressive practice development vs. more aggressive …
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Understanding Persuasive Communication: The Role of Heuristic Thinking, Context, and Debiasing in the Evaluation of Online Political Information
… the way we conceive and perform information and communication practices. In this sense, the Internet has drastically reduced the cost of data accessibility and data sharing, by increasing both the amount of information freely available for consultation and the speed at which it is possible to …
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A New Look at the Relation Between Discrepancy and Change
In persuasive communication theory and research discrepancy is traditionally defined in terms of the (absolute) difference between initial position of the receiver and the position advocated by the source of a message. Three experiments were performed in which the persuasive communication process …
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Directiveness in promotional communications
The style of a communication may influence a receiver's responses as well as the message's factual, informational content. The degree to which a promotional communication attempts to control a receiver's responses can be defined as a relational and therefore a stylistic variable. This dissertation …
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Rhetorical Influence on Collective Efficacy
… environment hasincreased the complexity of our communication within the workplace. Collective efficacy, or the shared belief in an organization to accomplish tasks, has become pivotal in determining effectiveness of organization in a virtual environment, which was commonly linked to persuasive …
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Knowledge and Meanings of Wilderness and Wildlife Refuges among Okefenokee Visitors on guided Intrepretive Tours
… guide training based on the principles of persuasive communication.
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“ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?”: ATTITUDINAL EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO ABORTION NARRATIVES
… Centers (CPCs) frequently include explicit persuasive appeals against abortion in their educational materials and resources. These appeals, despite the inaccurate claims typically made within, may be a crucial element within the persuasive communication process (Tan 2008; Kelly 2012). …
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The validity of the propositional theme in expository preaching
… that expository preaching seeks and practices persuasive communication. This paper demonstrates that persuasion seeks an assessable change in the listener's opinion or behavior, and calls for the propositional theme that points to the intended outcome. Furthermore, this dissertation illustrates …
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Message variation and source credibility in advertising
… of source credibility and message variation on persuasive communication. Much of the credibility literature on the persuasive effects of source has been contradictory, for four main reasons. First, the dimensions used to define credibility are often unclear. Sometimes sources vary on more than …
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
Rhetoric is the art of effective and persuasive communication. Building upon and bringing together musical and rhetorical scholarship from both Western and Afrological perspectives, this study lays out a theoretical framework and analytical process for applying the principles and devices of …
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The Use of visitor management techniques to protect a fragile environment.
… need to be delivered to visitors. Furthermore, persuasive communication is effective to modify visitors' on-site behaviour. Regulations and restrictions are usually law-enforced. Because their persuasive function is of coercive type (the managing agencies have the ability to administer …
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Reviving the Sleeper Effect
… effect. The study investigated the role of persuasive message repetition (once, twice), the position of a discounting cue, which challenged the stated position of a communication, the cue’s credibility (high/low) and the timing of the cue (presented before or after the persuasive …
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Targeting Negative Urgency and Expectancies in Persuasive Messaging
… expectancies of risky health behaviors via persuasive communication is an effective approach for deterring risky health behaviors. Targeting specific domains of impulsivity (e.g., sensation seeking) via persuasive messaging has also been associated with reduced substance use. However, trait …
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The Rhetoric of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric from 1838-1871
… or critics focused on the rhetoric—the persuasive techniques—of these sermons. This, perhaps, stems from early Mormonism's general aversion to the rhetorical textbook, or the theory of rhetoric and rhetorical practice. But the practice of rhetoric was (and continues to be) vital for the …
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Individual Differences in the Pursuit and Securement of Multiple Objectives in Interpersonal Persuasive Interactions (Attitudes, Conversation)
Traditional investigations of persuasive communication have focussed primarily on the pursuit and securement of only an instrumental (persuasive) objective. But in interpersonal persuasive interactions, interactants may pursue multiple objectives in atttempts to secure multiple intentions …
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Motivations to volunteer in selected service organisations in Australia
… through their volunteer participation allows persuasive communication to be developed that will more effectively attract people to these organisations. It can also assist the placement of volunteers in the most satisfying roles, resulting in longer retention of volunteers. This study employed …
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