This document outlines key concepts related to persuasion including:
- Persuasion involves influencing others through symbolic communication and shaping attitudes and behaviors. It is a means of transmitting messages to audiences.
- There are important reasons to persuade such as prompting action, changing beliefs, and motivating others.
- Credibility is crucial to persuasion and depends on personal credibility, expertise, and understanding the audience. Building trust, respect, evidence, and representing your message well can establish credibility.
- Modes of persuasion include appeals to logos (logic), ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion), kairos (timing), and various psychological principles.
- Psychological theories inform persuasion including social influence