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    Making an argument or trying to persuade someone can be a hard thing to do. There are three different types of persuasions called Ethos, Pathos, and Logos which can make persuading somebody either easier or harder. These three were used even back in the time of Homer when he wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. In Homer's book the Iliad Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are found and used many different times throughout the story. In book 1 of the Iliad, there is a scene when Nestor is using the ethos argument

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    A person's thoughts transpire like a fork in the road; people can help direct those thoughts through persuasion. Quality types of persuasion happen all around us, but there can also be a substandard type. The inspiring persuasion happens when someone trying to help another individual convinces them to do the right thing, but the other, inadequate persuasion, can lead to a poor choice that may cause regret later. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell uses persuasive language between the characters

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    ATTITUDE Introduction Attitude refers to a learned tendency to evaluate things in a special ways which may include evaluation of people, issues, object, or event. The evaluation can be positive or negative and can be uncertain at times. Researcher who took a more behavioural stance define attitude as predisposition to respond consistently in a positive or negative way to some person, object, or situation. Psychologist are in a better position to meet the goals of psychology (describe, explain, predict

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    There are two routes to persuasion, according to our textbook, the central and peripheral route. The central route focuses more so on message elaboration, which deals with the logic behind what the message is saying. As defined in the textbook, message elaboration is, “the extent to which a person carefully thinks about issue-relevant arguments contained in a persuasive message.” It requires great planes of cognitive effort. Unlike the central route, the peripheral route is different. It offers an

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    daily in different forms, based on different theories, aiming at changing our attitudes and directing them towards the desired outcome, therefore chapter 8 "theories of persuasion" focused on persuasion. As being exposed to new information every day and changing our attitudes accordingly persuasion has reached its goal, for example, if you like something and new information you have been exposed to changed your attitude towards it, then this is a successful persuasion communication. Persuasion can

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    Attitudes refer to one’s evaluations of the social world: others, objects and ideas. These overall evaluations can be positive, negative, or neutral, vary in their extremity and be based on a variety of information (Tesser and Martin, 1996; Petty, Wheeler, and Tormala, 2003 ). A popular conceptualization of the attitude construct, the tripartite theory, holds that there are three primary types of information in which attitudes can be based (Breckler, 1984; Rosenberg & Hovland, 1960; Zanna & Rempel

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    MGMT 3720 Coello, Jonathan Assignment # 1 Attitudes and Job Satisfaction – Walt Henderson In the case study titled Walt Henderson, Walt Henderson works for a drafting company along side thirty other technicians that are supervised by two inspectors. Walt is demonstrating issues of a negative or unfavorable attitude at work. According to this class’s textbook “Attitudes are evaluative statements – either favorable or unfavorable – about objects, people, or events” (Robbins, and Judge 66). The study

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    want to know if it is true for you too. Another important persuasive communication definition to be aware of is "attitude." When a person says, "What is your attitude toward gay marriage?" they want to know if you are favorable or not to the recent policies around this particular issue. People can have attitudes towards rules or ideas but also about people or places. Related to attitudes is the concept of "behavior", which simply stated is one’s intentional action (verbal or physical). Lastly, "motives"

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    Leningrad: The message meant to change society’s views Billy Joel is an American singer and songwriter who toured Russia in the later days of the Cold War in the mid 1980’s. Billy Joel was the first American to tour any communist country since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the raising of the Iron Curtain. Billy Joel, through the use of this Russian tour, was able to witness the Russian life first hand. During this tour he began to realize that not everything he had been taught about the Russians

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    How To Persuade Others Are you persuaded by logic or by emotions? You may want to say that you use reason and logic to make decisions, but the truth is that most of us are swayed by our emotions more than our logic. For example, I used to smoke while I worked in hospitals, and I watched patients suffering from their smoking in many different ways. Logically I knew smoking was bad for me. Logically I knew that smoking was hurting me in many different ways. But, when I met my co-workers for a cigarette

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