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We propose a new notion of credibility for Bayesian persuasion problems. A disclosure policy is credible if the sender cannot profit from tampering with her messages while keeping the message distribution unchanged. We show that the credibility of a disclosure policy is equivalent to a cyclical monotonicity condition on its induced distribution over ...
Lin, Xiao, Liu, Ce
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Evaluative conditioning as a symbolic phenomenon: on the relation between evaluative conditioning, evaluative conditioning via instructions, and persuasion [PDF]
Evaluative conditioning (EC) is sometimes portrayed as a primitive way of changing attitudes that is fundamentally different from persuasion via arguments.
De Houwer, Jan, Hughes, Sean Joseph
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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+3 more
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The goal of every author is to write a paper that readers (and reviewers) find convincing. Since writers of papers based on case research do not have recourse to the canonical statement “results are significant at p 0.05” that helps assuage readers ...
Nicolaj Siggelkow
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Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion
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+3 more
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Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions [PDF]
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+3 more
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Regional Facts Matter: A Comparative Perspective of Sub-State Fact-Checking Initiatives in Europe
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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Contagion on complex networks with persuasion
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+3 more
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The false promise of the better argument [PDF]
Effective argumentation in international politics is widely conceived as a matter of persuasion. In particular, the ‘logic of arguing’ ascribes explanatory power to the ‘better argument’ and promises to illuminate the conditions of legitimate ...
Apel+44 more
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The potential of generative AI for personalized persuasion at scale
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+5 more
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