Threat, Fear, and Persuasion: Review and Critique of Questions About Functional Form

Theories of threat appeals have been rightly concerned with the form of the relationship between fear and persuasion: Linear or curvilinear. They have not, however, clearly distinguished the question as a between- or within-persons phenomenon. In fact, the literature often treats these two perspecti...

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Main Authors: Lijiang Shen, James Price Dillard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Review of Communication Research 2014-01-01
Series:Review of Communication Research
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Online Access:http://www.rcommunicationr.org/index.php/articles/volume2-2014/viewdownload/13-volume-2-2014/26-shen-dillard-2014-threat-fear-and-persuasion