Persuasive Messages – The Process of Influence

Designed to help students become more successful persuaders, Persuasive Messages offers practical advice on refining purpose, understanding audience, and designing a persuasive message. This textbook combines theory and practice, adopting a cognitive approach to understanding the persuasion process.

A guide to successful persuasion, using student-friendly examples to provide a much-needed balance between theory and applicationOffers a new approach using the Cognitive Response Model, which places a special emphasis on audiences, and how they react to, or process, persuasive messagesCovers a broad range of issues including: the relationship between attitudes and behaviour; the nature of ethics in persuasion; dealing with hostile and multiple audiences; and theories of persuasion, including consistency, social judgment, and reasoned actionTeaches readers to be critical consumers of persuasive messages by discussing persuasion in advertising and in politicsLecturer resources available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/benoit