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Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions [PDF]

The Web Conference, 2016
Changing someone's opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how someone's opinions are formed and whether and how someone's views shift ...
Chenhao Tan, Vlad Niculae, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee   +3 more
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Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe

Media and Communication
After a significant surge of active fact-checking organisations over the past decade, fact-checkers now operate in more than 100 countries. Although the fact-checking movement is diverse, the majority of organisations function at a national level ...
Ferre Wouters, Michaël Opgenhaffen
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Language of Persuasion Used in the Election Campaigns by American Parliaments

الأستاذ, 2019
Persuasion can be defined as a scientific art which is closely connected with our life .Linguistically speaking, persuasion is achieved through many techniques termed "persuasive devices".
Iman Jebur Janam
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Contagion on complex networks with persuasion

, 2016
The threshold model has been widely adopted as a classic model for studying contagion processes on social networks. We consider asymmetric individual interactions in social networks and introduce a persuasion mechanism into the threshold model ...
Fu, Xinchu, Huang, Wei-Min, Xu, Xin-Jian, Zhang, Li-Jie   +3 more
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Re-Examining the Agentic Shift: The Sense of Agency Influences the Effectiveness of (Self)Persuasion.

PLoS ONE, 2015
In the present study we investigated whether differences in the sense of agency influenced the effectiveness of both direct persuasion and self-persuasion techniques. By manipulating both the delay and contingency of the outcomes of actions, participants
Tom G E Damen, Barbara C N Müller, Rick B van Baaren, Ap Dijksterhuis   +3 more
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The potential of generative AI for personalized persuasion at scale

Scientific Reports
Matching the language or content of a message to the psychological profile of its recipient (known as “personalized persuasion”) is widely considered to be one of the most effective messaging strategies.
S. C. Matz, J. D. Teeny, S. Vaid, H. Peters, G. M. Harari, M. Cerf   +5 more
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The Meaning-Making of Dementia (MMoD) model: How people living with dementia navigate lived experience and cultural frames

SSM - Mental Health
Background: In Western Europe, dementia is commonly portrayed in media as a societal burden, emphasizing economic costs and loss of personhood. The goal of this research is to nuance those representations by focusing on the personal experiences of people
Lisa Bormans, Baldwin Van Gorp
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Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Significance Building on recent advancements in the assessment of psychological traits from digital footprints, this paper demonstrates the effectiveness of psychological mass persuasion—that is, the adaptation of persuasive appeals to the psychological ...
S. Matz, Michal Kosinski, G. Nave, D. Stillwell   +3 more
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Playful Persuasion

Nordicom Review, 2009
The use of video games for advertising purposes is persuasive communication which directly involves the recipient in the construction of an argument. This form is becoming increasingly common, and the present article explores the phenomenon of game-based
Smith Jonas Heide, Just Sine Nørholm
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Algorithmic Bayesian Persuasion

, 2016
Persuasion, defined as the act of exploiting an informational advantage in order to effect the decisions of others, is ubiquitous. Indeed, persuasive communication has been estimated to account for almost a third of all economic activity in the US.
Aumann R., Border K., Gentzkow M., Gick W., Guo M., McCloskey D., Rabinovich Z., Weinberg S. M., Xu H.   +8 more
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