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Persuasion Flashcards

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1
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You can “inoculate” or immunize people against persuasion by exposing people to weak (easily refutable) arguments against their position

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Attitude inoculation

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efforts of the media to select certain events and topics to emphasize, thereby shaping which issues and events people think are important.

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agenda control

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what makes a speaker more persuasive?

  • Physical appeal
  • Similarity
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Attractiveness

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whom: mood, distraction, movement

what makes an audience more persuasive?

  1. Mood
    - A positive mood may lead to greater persuasion
    - Misattribute good mood to the message
  2. Distraction
    - If…
    - The message arguments are weak
    - The message is delivered by a credible person
  3. Movement
    - Head nodding (wells and petty, 1980)
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audience effects

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an appeal to follow the crowd, to join in because others are doing so as well

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bandwagon effect

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presenting information that is positive to an idea or proposal and emitting information contrary to it

ex:
- a brand of snack food is loaded with sugar (and calories), the commercial may boast that the product is low in fat, which implies that it is also low in calories

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card stacking

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  • Perceived expertise
  • Trustworthiness
  • Arguing against self-interest
  • Speaking quickly and without hesitation
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Credibility

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  • Distinctive ritual and beliefs related to its devotion to a god or a person, usually far outside the mainstream
  • Isolation from the surrounding “evil culture”
  • A charismatic leader
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cults

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the rubber band effect (wanting space and pulling back)

  • a lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts
  • More … leads to more persuasion to a point, after which too much is bad
  • Experts get away with this more
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Discrepancy

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  • If…
  • The message arguments are weak
  • The message is delivered by a credible person
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distractions

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Two possible processing routes that can cause persuasion

  • Peripheral Route Processing
  • Central Route Processing
  • The way we process persuasive messages is based on motivation and ability
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Elaboration likelihood model

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  • Effortless processing
  • Not directly pertinent to the argument

ex. celebrity in ads

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Peripheral Route Processing

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  • Effortful processing
  • Effect of argument quality
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Central Route Processing

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  • Greater personal relevance, greater need for cognition
  • No distractions, sufficient information and time to process
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High Motivation and High Ability

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  • Less personal relevance, less need for cognition
  • Lots of distractions, insufficient information and time to process
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Low Motivation and Low Ability

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  • Only effective in some conditions
  • When coupled with behavioral recommendations
  • Not effective in domains that are already scary

ex. Smoking kills in many ways … quit smoking right now

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Fear appeals

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words that have different positive meaning for individual subjects, but are linked to highly valued concepts

ex. “This product promises everything you could ever want in toothpaste”

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Glittering generalities technique

18
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individual person you can identify as a victim of a conflict

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Identifiable victim effect

19
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presenting an idea or proposal as the least offensive option

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Lesser of Two Evils

20
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Isolated from friends and family who could help counter-argue

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One-sided appeals

21
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the “what”
- what makes a message more persuasive?

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message effects

22
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Our attitudes about our own thoughts

  • awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes.
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Metacognition

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  • A positive mood may lead to greater persuasion
  • Misattribute good mood to the message
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mood

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head nodding

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movement

25
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mediates the relation between expert and explanation quality

  • credibility
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Perceived expertise

26
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oversimplifying a complex situation by presenting one specific group or person as the enemy

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Pinpointing the Enemy

27
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convincing the audience that one’s views are those of the common person and that they are also working for the benefit of the common person

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Plain Folks

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information presented at the beginning is most persuasive

Message 1–> Message 2 –> Delay =

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Primacy effects

29
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information presented at the end is most persuasive

Message 1–> Delay –> Message 2

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Recency effects

30
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an unpleasant motivational arousal that emerges when people experience a threat to or loss of their free behaviors

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Reactance

31
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Information becomes dissociated from its original, non-credible source over time

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Sleeper effect

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the “who”

  • what makes a speaker more persuasive?
A

Speaker effects

33
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an attempt to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea

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Testimonials technique

34
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Public commitment to a belfie causes resistance to persuasion

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Thought polarization

35
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individuals will perceive media messages to have greater effects on other people than on themselves

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Third-person effect

36
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  • presenting pro and con arguments

If…
Audience is or WILL BE aware of both sides

  • Audience disagrees with you
  • …then acknowledge the other side
  • BUT, backfires when the audience is on your side, so stick with a one-sided appeal
A

Two-Sided Appeals

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Who says What to Whom

  • Who: Speaker Effects (credibility and attractiveness)
  • What: Message Effects (discrepancy, two-sided appeals, primacy and recency effects and fear appeals)
  • Whom: Audience Effects (mood, distraction, movement)
A

yale model

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Messages with a single identifiable victim are more compelling than those without such vivid imagery

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Identifiable victim effect

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