Skip the breast exam example awkward – Question asking can be a form of pre-persuasion (95). Subtle changes in the wording of a question can produce dramatically different responses. -Gerry Spence, attorney, claims that a well-phrased question may contain more persuasive information that the answer to the question. Example-Guccione -Elizabeth Loftus how leading questions can influence eyewitness testimony. – -Example of pain reliever chart (see book) can be a powerful persuasion device because questions structure “Question-asking our decision-making process (99). -Examples of how politician avoid answering questions Chapter 10 Power of Decoys” “The X Chapter 11 Psychology of Factoids” “The Opens with a mysterious attack” in a town in Illinois “gas The gasser was a factoid. They define factoid as an assertion of fact that is not backed up by evidence, usually because that fact is false of because evidence in support of the assertion cannot be obtained. (Rumors, gossip, urban legends, libel, slander, hearsay) Claim: Factoids are common (105). -Examples: War of the Worlds; Paul McCartney; Susan Smith entire newspapers, magazines, and television programs, under the guise of “Today presenting are devoted to inventing and circulating believable rumors (106). ‘news,’ Flaming is the Internet term for vicious attacks and unfounded rumors. Daniel Wegner and his colleagues conducted a series of simple experiments- -newspaper headlines: candidates linked with a directly incriminating headline were perceived more negatively. Source made little difference. Factoids function as a form of pre-persuasion; they create social reality (113). Evidence law- Students in one of courses (118) Method for dealing with potential factoids: begin questioning and confronting the makers of factoids directly.
Skip the breast exam example – awkward Question asking can be a form of pre-persuasion (95). Subtle changes in the wording of a question can produce dramatically different responses. -Gerry Spence, attorney, claims that a well-phrased question may contain more persuasive information that the answer to the question. Example-Guccione -Elizabeth Loftus – how leading questions can influence eyewitness testimony. -Example of pain reliever chart (see book) “Question-asking can be a powerful persuasion device because questions structure our decision-making process (99). -Examples of how politician avoid answering questions Chapter 10 “The Power of Decoys” X Chapter 11 “The Psychology of Factoids” Opens with a mysterious “gas attack” in a town in Illinois The gasser was a factoid. They define factoid as an assertion of fact that is not backed up by evidence, usually because that fact is false of because evidence in support of the assertion cannot be obtained. (Rumors, gossip, urban legends, libel, slander, hearsay) Claim: Factoids are common (105). -Examples: War of the Worlds; Paul McCartney; Susan Smith “Today entire newspapers, magazines, and television programs, under the guise of presenting ‘news,’ are devoted to inventing and circulating believable rumors (106). Flaming is the Internet term for vicious attacks and unfounded rumors. Daniel Wegner and his colleagues conducted a series of simple experiments- -newspaper headlines: candidates linked with a directly incriminating headline were perceived more negatively. Source made little difference. Factoids function as a form of pre-persuasion; they create social reality (113). Evidence law- Students in one of courses (118) Method for dealing with potential factoids: begin questioning and confronting the makers of factoids directly.
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