attractiveness + expertise
are important in persuasion
Petty +
Cacipoppo -
attractive
communicators
were far more
effective
attractive rock
starts often become
public speakers for
political issues and
adverts
Bono, Cheryl Cole
Hume - celeb
endorsements
had minimal
impact
Johnny Vega + Monkey
meant to advertise ITV
digital - it failed
experts are
more
persuasive
popular and
attractive are
more popular
with audience
what
message is more
effective if audience do
not know it is persuasive
message that causes fear
is quite influential
Putwain + Symes - when
students given message
about exams including
fear of not knowing
everything was more
effective than a message
just making students
anxious
High anxiety
was linked to a
reduction in
test
performance
Gender
difference?
Eagly + Carli -
gender difference
- females are
easier to
persuade than
men
Sistrunk + McDavid - females
only easier to persuade
because material was
masculine. if material was
neutral, there would be no
difference
Karabenic - males infulence by
female information, vice versa,
depends on the information, the
more familiar you are with it, the
harder you are to persuade
Whom
the audience
low intelligence audiences are
easier to persuade, often do
not understand information
Loftus - younger children easier
to persuade, makes younger
children less reliable as
witnesses as they can easily be
persuaded by misleading info
Martin - older children
knew advert was meant
to be persuasive + were
less influenced by them,
but younger children
did not understand info
so were more
influenced
high intelligence audiences -
hard to persuade - confident in
their own views
present both sides
of the argument + let
audience make up
mind
PERV
early research on army
personnel and students
- cannot be generalized
research relied on self-
report, not actual
behaviour - may lack
ecological validity