Building on existing research on self-referencing persuasion and narrative health communication, this study examined the persuasive effects of a linguistic message strategy-narrative point of view-and assessed the effects of first-person point of view as compared to third-person point of view. Web-based experimental results (N = 222) showed that the first-person point of view brought about higher levels of character identification and perceived susceptibility than third-person point of view, while the two points of view were equally effective in evoking transportation, self- referencing, and perceived severity. The results also indicated that self-referencing fully mediated the positive relationship between transportation/identification and perceived susceptibility. Yet self-referencing showed no significant impact on perceived severity, whereas more transportation/identification directly led to more perceived severity. Theoretical and practical recommendations are provided for health practitioners, and social media health campaigns

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-263). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-263). Also available on the Internet.

Key words: perspective taking, age differences, motivational trigger hypothesis, experimental manipulation / Moreover, in Experiment 2, with a distance manipulation, both younger and older adults showed impaired performance in emotion recognition. Findings from these two experiments supported the Motivational Trigger Hypothesis , such that the well-documented poor performance in perspective taking tasks of older adults might be due to a lack of motivation instead of a lack of ability to perform in laboratory settings. In daily contexts, especially with someone close to them, older adults might be more motivated to take others' perspective and thus perform better on the perspective-taking tasks. / There was a folk notion of increased perspective taking abilities with age, such that older adults should be better at understanding others' behavior and intention, and show greater empathy to others. However, empirical studies on older adults showed the reverse pattern. In a series of experiments, I investigated the phenomenon from a motivational perspective. In Experiment 1, I manipulated perceived closeness between participants and the experimenter in a faux pas recognition task, and in Experiment 2, I manipulated perceived closeness as well as distance between participants and the target in an emotion recognition task, to examine whether the experimental manipulations could influence participants' performance in the two perspective taking tasks. The results revealed that in the control condition without any experimental manipulation, the well-documented negative age effect was only replicated in both faux pas recognition and emotion recognition. However, in the closeness manipulation condition, older adults significantly enhanced their performance in both tasks, such that they now performed at a comparable level with younger adults; whereas younger adults did not show such enhancement effects. / Zhang, Xin. / Advisers: Helene Fung; Alan Wong. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-06, Section: B, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-92). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Computer Science and Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Orientadores: Anna Christina Bentes da Silva, Edwiges Maria Morato / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T03:57:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_RafahelJeanParintins_M.pdf: 2300492 bytes, checksum: 80c89200029eb9b405958ab9a7b3ec3e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação, discutimos o papel de processos cognitivo-discursivos na identificação de perspectivas sociais presentes em um grupo social composto por pesquisadores e afásicos. Objetivamos analisar movimentos convergentes e divergentes de ações cognitivo-discursivas realizadas em entrevistas de caráter temático (ALBERTI, 2004) com participantes do Centro de Convivência de Afásicos (CCA), situado no Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL/UNICAMP): um centro de interação social entre pessoas afásicas e não afásicas. Elaboramos um protocolo de entrevista que tematizou a definição, a organização grupal e a experiência individual e coletiva do CCA. Aplicamos esse protocolo em 2 (dois) sujeitos afásicos e 2 (dois) pesquisadores de um dos grupos que compõem o CCA. Por meio da análise da estruturação grupal e da produção discursiva observada, procuramos mostrar a relação entre experiências, papéis sociais e ações cognitivo-discursivas. Destacamos, nas análises discursivas das entrevistas, a descrição e a inter-relação de recategorizações, processos metadiscursivos (segmentos e metaformulações) e evocações/transformações em/de frames. Notamos, ao analisar esses construtos cognitivo-discursivos, que eles se coordenam entre si de acordo com a experiência social e os papéis grupais dos sujeitos entrevistados. Identificamos e problematizamos, no tratamento dessas divergências e convergências discursivas, a noção de perspectiva (GRAUMANN, 1993; VAN DIJK, 2012 [2008]), definida como o lugar social marcado por determinadas experiências sociais. Concluímos que o aparente "fosso" existente entre as experiências sociais de cada sujeito não impede a coesão entre suas perspectivações discursivas. Nossos resultados ajudam a compreender melhor a dinâmica de perspectivas sociais dentro do grupo e a refletir sobre os estudos de organização grupal / Abstract: In this thesis, we discuss the role of cognitive/discursive processes in the identification of social perspectives in a group composed by researchers and aphasics. We aim at analyzing cognitive/discursive actions carried out in thematic interviews (ALBERTI, 2004) with participants of the Social Center of Aphasics (CCA), located at the Language Studies Institute (IEL/UNICAMP) ¿ a center for social interactions among aphasic and non-aphasic people. We elaborated an interview about the group organization and the collective/individual experiences carried out in CCA. We interviewed 2 (two) aphasics and 2 (two) researchers, members of CCA. By means of the analysis of the group structure and the discursive production, we show the relationship among social experiences, roles and cognitive/discursive actions. Results show the inter-relation among re-categorizations, meta-discursive processes and activation of frames. In analyzing these processes, we noted that there is coordination among them, according to social experiences and roles that participants have in the group. We identified and questioned the notions of social perspective (GRAUMANN, 1993; VAN DIJK, 2012 [2008]) defined as the social location marked by some social experiences. We concluded that the existent "gap" among the involved social experiences does not prevent the cohesion among perspectives. Our results collaborate to the study of group organization and the dynamics of social perspectives in group / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

Richard Rorty found Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of epistemology (perspectivism) to be a helpful tool in getting us to stop thinking of knowledge as something we find, and instead as something that we create. He also found perspectivism to be a helpful tool in that of the private sphere, of private self-creation. The Nietzsche that provides perspectivism is “The Good Nietzsche”. Rorty, however, conceived of Nietzsche’s ideas as being absolutely useless when it comes to politics, along with his ideas regarding morality, the Will to Power, and the Übermensch. These are the ideas of “The Bad Nietzsche”. Rorty’s actual usage of Nietzsche’s ideas, however, defies such easy, self-defined categorization, because these ideas extend outside of their spheres into the realm of politics in Rorty’s own writings. Most traditional analyses of the relationship between Nietzsche and Rorty as it regards politics tend to focus on Nietzsche. By focusing on Rorty’s appropriation of Nietzsche, through looking at his extensive writings and interviews, a more subtle, and complex relationship between Nietzsche’s various ideas and Rorty’s politics is seen to exist.

Richard Rorty found Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of epistemology (perspectivism) to be a helpful tool in getting us to stop thinking of knowledge as something we find, and instead as something that we create. He also found perspectivism to be a helpful tool in that of the private sphere, of private self-creation. The Nietzsche that provides perspectivism is “The Good Nietzsche”. Rorty, however, conceived of Nietzsche’s ideas as being absolutely useless when it comes to politics, along with his ideas regarding morality, the Will to Power, and the Übermensch. These are the ideas of “The Bad Nietzsche”. Rorty’s actual usage of Nietzsche’s ideas, however, defies such easy, self-defined categorization, because these ideas extend outside of their spheres into the realm of politics in Rorty’s own writings. Most traditional analyses of the relationship between Nietzsche and Rorty as it regards politics tend to focus on Nietzsche. By focusing on Rorty’s appropriation of Nietzsche, through looking at his extensive writings and interviews, a more subtle, and complex relationship between Nietzsche’s various ideas and Rorty’s politics is seen to exist.