This document contains a student's assignment submission for a social psychology course. It includes the student's name, ID number, course details, and contact information. The main body summarizes and analyzes a magazine advertisement for a muscle-building supplement brand endorsed by bodybuilder Jay Cutler. The summary identifies that the ad uses four persuasion techniques: featuring a credible communicator in Jay Cutler, displaying an attractive muscular model, promoting effective results without attitude change, and including emotionally appealing messages about nutrients and taste.

1. NAME: FELIX VONG ZHI WEI
STUDENT ID: 0318462
SUBJECT: SOCIAL PYSCHOLOGY
COURSE CODE: PSY30203
E-MAIL: felix_vong@hotmail.com
LECTURER: MS. NORUL HIDAYAH
TITLE: ASSIGNMENT 1 – INDIVIDUAL JOURNAL
SUBMISSION DATE: 30/10/2014

2. This advertisement was found in The Muscular Development Magazine on
September season 2013, before the 49th of Mr. Olympia. This advertisement was
created by a sport nutrition brand Jay Cutler Elite Series. The advertisement feature of
a muscular man (Jay Cutler) shows his muscular arm. A perceptible message – “More
muscle building results in every scoop.”
First of all, this advertisement is using of four persuasion techniques. The first one is
using credible communicators. For body builders, they might recognize who Jay
Cutler is. He is Mr. Olympia of the 2006 to 2007 season and 2009 to 2010 season.
There are a lots of supplement brand out there. When people who consider
supplement brand, as it is a Mr. Olympia as a testimonial. They will trust for it.
Beside that, attractive communicator is used in this advertisement. The man has
muscular body, with a huge arm, so that attract his admirer and also body builders
who wanted to be like him for their goal.
Other than that, this advertisement also applied message that do not appear to change
attitude. The message “More muscle building results in every scoops”, which means
gain muscle after taking every single scoop of it, does not persuade the readers’ to
like the brand more. It does not indication any tendency to persuade the readers’ to
take the brand product.
Lastly, it also applied of message with emotional content. From the endorser
message “Not only does total protein taste incredible but it’s packed full of critical
muscle building nutrients.” It means not only taste good but also deliver good muscle
nutrients. This message may be an attraction to body builders. This is an effective
techniques of persuasion due to the emotional contents are being more effective than
logical analysis. This may attract body builders who want good taste and buffer
muscular body.
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