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The Effects Of Attorney Gender On Male And Female Juror Judgments, Shari V.N. Hodgson

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A Survey Of The Membership Of The Florida Public Relations Association On The Question Of Licensing Public Relations Practitioners, Jean G. Floyd

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Blacks Examine Their Television Images, Bonita W. Sherman

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The Effects Of Threat To One's Belief On Stimulus Of Belief Supporting Arguments, Peter A. Jeye

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The process of persuasion has been written about and studied in abundance since the times of Plato and Aristotle. However, comparatively little research has been done on resistance to persuasion. In fact, to this day, only two series of systematic studies on resistance to persuasion have been reported. The present study will be a logical extension of that research.

Early efforts to study resistance to persuasion focused on the effects of one-sided and two-sided communications. One-sided communications present arguments for a given point of view, without any mention of arguments for the opposing point of view or attempted refutation of …

Crying And Child Abuse: A Survey Of Response To Infant Cry-Signals, Robert E. Wright

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We compared the ability of several groups of women to distinguish infant cry-signals. The cry-signals were taped reproductions of the Wasz-Hockert et al., (1964) study. Subjects were mothers and non-mother practical nursing students and mothers known to have battered their children. The results supported previous findings on ability to recognize cry-signals by mothers and non-mothers. The findings were not supportive of our primary hypothesis to determine if abusive mothers were less likely to correctly identify infant cry-signals than non-abusive mothers.

The Effects Of Garment Color Upon Audience's Perception Of Source Credibility, Linda Weckerly

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The Effects Of Temporal Delay Upon Denial As A Means Of Restoring Beliefs Following Succesful Persuasion, Ginny G. Beaubien

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Students in basic speech courses served as subjects in a study designed to test the efficacy of denial as a restorative agent after subjects' exposure to a belief-lowering attack. Denial was operationalized in two ways: (a) as a simple statement whereby the ostensible source of the attack message denied any connection with the attack, and (b) as a denial plus counter-assertion where the source additionally asserted an opinion directly contrary to that expressed i the attack. Denial treatments were administered either immediately, two days, or seven days after subjects' receipt of the attack message. While the immediate simple denial treatment …

The Effects Of Perceptual Motor Skills On The Reading Ability Of Third Grade Students, Mary B. Donaldson

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Network Television News And Foreign Events: A Content Analysis Of The Coverage Of The Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981), Mohamad H. Javaheri

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An Investigation Of The Effects Of Male Nudity In Advertising On Product Brand Recall, John A. Welsch

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The Effects Of Various Message Strategies On Fund Raising Effectiveness For Charitable Organizations, Bonnie Jo Buck

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The Effects Of Time And Initial Belief Level On The Restorability Of Beliefs, John Edward Lander

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Television And Perceptions Of Reality, John M. Davis

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The Effects Of Super Speech Therapy On The Verbal Communication Abilities Of Mentally Retarded Adults, Jane D. Hjelm

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The Effects Of Environment And Speech Style On The Evaluation Of Speaker And Message, James Thompson Biggers

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The Reliability Of The Scanning Technique As A Method Of Response For Non-Vocal, Physically Handicapped Individuals, Kathryn Goshorn

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Complexity Of Distraction And Message/Task As They Relate To Persuasion And Intellectual Task Performance, Patrick Don Jerome

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An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Voice Therapy Vs. Physicians Advice On The Frequency And Severity Of Vocal Nodule Recurrence, Julie M. Medland

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Resistance To Persuasion: The Effects Of Varying Belief Level; Double Defense Order; And Time In An Inoculation Paradigm, Larry R. Vinson

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Extroversion-Introversion And Neuroticism-Stability As Personality Correlates Of Rumor Transmission, Larna A. Brown

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The Effects Of Persuasive Communication By An Aggressive And Biased Juror In A Simulated Jury Task, Irving Bernard Goodwin

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A Longitudinal Study Of The Effects Of Three Specific Communication Techniques In Vocal Rehabilitation, Minnie S. Graham

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Immediate Learner Achievement As An Effect Of Aesthetic Embellishment In Educational Art, Roger D. Markham

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This study was designed to test the null hypothesis that there would be no significant difference in the achievement of subjects who are taught the same concepts using two sets of visuals which differ in detail, complexity, accuracy of scale and use of background. A 20-item comprehension test produced non-significant differences between the simple and complex artwork treatments within both the Army Reserve and FTU samples. Subjects in both target audiences achieved approximately the same comprehension level even though the perceived the complex art to be significantly more adequate to teach. The major implication of this study is the possibility …

The Limits Of The Effects Of Machiavellianism On Bargaining Success In Triads, Harry M. Leith

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Understanding the processes of communication during mixed-motive bargaining in coalition depends to a great extent upon comprehension of the variables which affect it. Certainly one of the most important variables of such communication is the influence of personality effect upon the bargaining outcomes. One personality variable, Machiavellianism, is strongly related to manipulative behavior. This thesis examines both the effects of Machiavellianism on bargaining success in face-to-face triads, and explores the limits of those effects relative to task orientation and personality type disclosure. It was found that Machiavellians are more able bargainers only so long as the nature and identity of …

A History Of The Sentinel Star, John Rogers Malloy

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An Analysis Of The Communication Efforts Made By Walt Disney World During The Energy Crisis - October 1973 To March 1974, Carol E. Campbell

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Distraction And Dissonance: A Model Of The Persuasive Process, Davis Albert Foulger

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After exploring the successes, failures, and conflicting explanations for results in two communications research traditions, distraction and counter-attitudinal advocacy, an attempt was made to explain these results in terms of a more comprehensive theory. Distractions were organized into classes defined by their strength and relevance to the message, demonstrating how these and other factors affected the persuasiveness of a message. On the basis of this theory an untested class of distractions, cognitive distractions, were hypothesized. This class of distraction, related to cognitive dissonance, was then used to integrate the conflicting research in counter-attitudinal advocacy. On the basis of this theory, …

The Effects Of Communication Medium And Vested Interest On Persuasion, Donna S. Java

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A Study Of Hospital-Newspaper Relations In Florida, Mary Catherine Kirkham Lennon

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Mediated, College-Level Nontraditional Study Within Florida, Maureen Elizabeth O'Donnell

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