Sentences with phrase «appealing to emotion in»

Psychology Today states that appealing to emotion in advertisements can increase the likelihood that clients will buy a product.

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The Oxford English Dictionary declared «post-truth» the word of the year — the notion that «objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.»

Spartanburg attorney Michael Morin, who opposed Gowdy in a death penalty case and later worked for him in the prosecutor's office, said Gowdy excelled at appealing to a jury's emotions.

Once again, you need to appeal to human emotions to get people to be more proactive in your campaign.

Use that story, maybe even appeal to their emotions, in order to convince a reader they need you.

It goes straight to the emotions — in a place we may be vulnerable — loneliness that most people have experienced at one time or another — rather than seeking to appeal to our intelligence.

Melodrama: The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions.

Two other areas that Pritchard highlights in the descriptive part of his book are the emphasis on programs that appeal to the emotions and the packaging of the gospel as user - friendly Christianity 101.

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

They described the phrase as «relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief».

I saw in Mohler's review of the book yet another illustration of what I have described here; for as Mohler related the book's argument, there was precious little appeal to evidence, and considerably more to morality and emotion.

His work ranks with the finest classical Hebrew prose to be found anywhere in the Old Testament, displaying a phenomenal verbal / literary technique in the use of humor and irony, in subtle, sensitive character portrayal, and in effective, varied appeal to human emotion.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

Sometimes that will involve appeals to logic or to facts (data presented in visual form can be a powerful persuasive tool), but at least as often activists use emotion to sway opinions.

In digital organizing, we often talk about emotional appeal, and this allows us to start figuring out if we are eliciting the emotions we want to be eliciting.

Sometimes that will involve appeals to logic or to facts (data presented in visual form can be a powerful persuasive tool), but at least as often you'll use emotion to sway opinions.

Furthermore, beyond reacting based on emotion, authoritarian platforms / promises / appeals are based on dead - solid, simple certainty, which directly speaks to the very things causing uncertainty, even if, in the light of a more rational assessment, they really aren't solutions.

Public support is best fired up by appeal to the emotions of deadly combat, over which the amygdala — a center for primary emotion in the brain — is grandmaster.

Now a study in the January issue of Behavior Modification finds that a treatment that appeals to both logic and emotion, via mental imagery, can help relieve these intrusive feelings.

The graduation ceremony is seemingly above criticism in its «appeal to tradition and appeal to emotion,» says Williams.

But beyond appealing to Washington's emotions, Ankney acknowledges Montana isn't in a powerful negotiating position with the older units» current owners.

Messages appealing to the customer's emotions, such as «To avoid disappointment, please ensure that the product you are buying is compatible with your device,» combined with an emoticon (a sad face) were the most effective in preventing a participant from purchasing an incompatible producto the customer's emotions, such as «To avoid disappointment, please ensure that the product you are buying is compatible with your device,» combined with an emoticon (a sad face) were the most effective in preventing a participant from purchasing an incompatible producTo avoid disappointment, please ensure that the product you are buying is compatible with your device,» combined with an emoticon (a sad face) were the most effective in preventing a participant from purchasing an incompatible product.

They run, fight, jump, climb, fly, sting, bite, and even appeal to our emotions (if you've ever seen a puppy beg for a treat with sad eyes, you know that isn't just accidental cuteness) in order to survive.

The appeal of Lovelace to the emotions, in its simplistic characterisation of Chuck Traynor as Svengali, becomes pornographic, in this sense, when Anthony Romano oversees Chuck's beating, at which stage viewers will probably take delight in seeing this exploitative man getting what he deserves.

It could have taken place in an exaggerated universe that bears no resemblance to our own and had its many complex themes and emotions turned up to eleven in an attempt to appeal to the lowest common denominator — to get the most teenage butts in the seats on repeat viewings to increase what I expect will be an ENORMOUS box office haul.

They describe this as the «circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

«You may think you are prepared for a post-truth world, in which political appeals to emotion count for more than statements of verifiable fact,» writes Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for The Washington Post.

You are telling them in a way that appeals to both their reason and emotions.

And in a time of prescriptive fantasies, Pullman has given us an adventure, again, and with it an appeal to the myriad complicated emotions we had when we once were young.

The author, in a true - to - life passage, intersperses Aunt Hester's seemingly glamorous yarns with the far less appealing situations and emotions behind them.

Gretchen Lowell isn't just the most fascinating villain (and certainly the most appealing serial killer) to appear in crime fiction in many, many years; she's also becoming a multifaceted character capable of engendering a much wider range of emotions than one would expect of somebody who enjoys carving up spleens.»

The selection of an effective persuasive essay writing topic is necessary in order to pick a convincing argument to appeal the emotions of the humans.

invest in things you care about...» Their entire appeal (to those uninformed) is based upon the # 1 fundamntal rule which is to NEVER make decisions based on emotions... that should tell you all you need to know about Stash.

Segment 1: The article, «Why Politics and Investing Don't Mix,» by Mike Piper, in which Piper alerts readers to how security sales people and other financial sales organizations appeal to the emotions of both the right - and left - leaning views in order to convince them to invest in inappropriate products.

Although the tactics aren't necessarily new, they are nonetheless effective in attracting attention and, importantly, appealing to emotion.

---------------------------:: 2:45 SESSION TWO --------------------------- BRAND COMMUNICATION, EMOTIONS, AND THE NEW SIMPLICITY IN VIDEO GAMES Dirk Schülgen (Electronic Arts, Cologne) The head of product marketing at the world's biggest games developer and publisher illustrates how the latest breed of video games appeal to new demographics, and what opportunities this opens up for brand communication.

Exactly how or why little LEGO Batman and the rest of the characters managed to learn the art of conversing in between LEGO Batman and LEGO Batman 2 shall forever remain a mystery, but there's no denying that this is a brave move on the developers behalf as much of the franchises appeal can be traced back to the simple fact that watching mute little plastic people miming their feelings and attempting to convey complex emotions through the art of slapstick is awesome.

Reviewers were of mixed opinion about Final Fantasy V Dear Friends; finding it to be of fair quality, though Jason Strohmaier took issue with some of the synthesized instruments and Freddie W. of RPGFan concluded in his review that the album was «a mixed bag of moods, emotions, and ideas that would only appeal to those who loved Final Fantasy V.» [13][14]

In essence, she creates a new kind of «cliffhanger» with reference to the edge of England, as well as the edge of life, and materially conjures up the site's associated emotions while offering a visually appealing form.

Norton reasons that its appeal resides in its germaneness: «The issues that it deals with — freedom, loss, community, the urban environment, hopefulness — can relate to and elicit emotions from anyone, during virtually any time period.»

The list is full of seductive, intriguing, involving work that appeals to the emotions and the senses, and in which what you might regard as traditional techniques — drawing, painting — loom large.

Much that is cold and cynical in Warhol is here: in the mass production, in the voyeurism, in the opportunistic appeal to pop - cultural emotion.

# 43 Sean: I think the scientists here are responding to the large amount of apocalyptic information that appeals directly to emotion out here in the blogosphere.

Both James and Michael are insisting upon more rational presentation of issues and facts, but (especially today in our information - saturated world), appeals to values and emotion grab attention and impel action far more effectively than rational, Platonic discussion.

I think the takeaway can work in the fuzzier middle, but won't work on the outer perimeter since that is where the other side is most entrenched and would simply say look, their trying to appeal to our emotions, laugh, and then change the channel.

Of course, we have lives to live and have come to trust those voices that sound compelling and sensible to us on TV and in the popular media, but do keep in mind that there's a difference between rhetoric and reality and the more rhetorical and appealing it seems to one's emotions, especially as delivered by those for whom science is a kind of performance as we have today with science journalists (they are afterall selling the controversy more than the hard facts), the more likely it requires the reader or viewer or listener to examine it more closely for the precision of its language, logic and scientific interpretation.

Imagery and visual cues can play a role in how people view climate change and can increase concern so long as the imagery does not appeal to negative emotions such as fear.

There is a tradition in politics that is similar to one in the legal profession: When evidence supports your position, make your argument based on the evidence, but when it argues against your position, ignore the evidence and appeal to emotion.

Wikipedia says: By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (e.g. appeal to emotion), or take advantage of social relationships between people (e.g. argument from authority).

Cloaking arguments in social - justice concepts also is an appeal to the audience's emotions because there's no consensus about what the term «social justice» means, despite some lawyers» attempts to unilaterally define its meaning.