The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice, Edition 2

James Price Dillard · Lijiang Shen

sept 2012 · SAGE Publications

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The Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice provides readers with logical, comprehensive summaries of research in a wide range of areas related to persuasion. From a topical standpoint, this handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering issues that will be of interest to interpersonal and mass communication researchers as well as to psychologists and public health practitioners. Persuasion is presented in this volume on a micro to macro continuum, moving from chapters on cognitive processes, the individual, and theories of persuasion, to chapters highlighting broader social factors and phenomena related to persuasion, such as social context and larger scale persuasive campaigns. Each chapter identifies key challenges to the area and provides research strategies for addressing those challenges.

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James Price Dillard is Liberal Arts Research Professor in Communication Arts & Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. His research emphasizes theory and empirical analysis of the role of emotion in persuasion. He has received the John E. Hunter Award for Meta-Analysis and is a Fellow in the International Communication Association. His previous books include Seeking Compliance: The Production of Interpersonal Influence Messages and (with Michael Pfau) The Persuasion Handbook: Developments in Theory and Practice, 1st edition.

Lijiang Shen is associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia. His primary area of research considers the impact of message features and audience characteristics in persuasive health communication, message processing, and the process of persuasion/resistance to persuasion as well as quantitative research methods in communication. His research has been published in major communication and related journals.