Leçons de rhétorique et de belles-lettres /

Mode of access: Internet.

Rhétorique françoise, a l'usage des jeunes demoiselles : avec des exemples tirés, pour la plûpart, de nos meilleurs orateurs & poëtes modernes /

Mode of access: Internet.

Leçons de rhétorique et de belles-lettres /

Mode of access: Internet.

Leçons de rhétorique et de belles-lettres /

ICCU.

L'art du poëte et de l'orateur : nouvelle rhétorique a l'usage des colleges ; précédée d'un Essai d'education.

Mode of access: Internet.

Rhétorique française à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles : avec des exemples tirés, pour la plupart, de nos meilleurs orateurs et poëtes modernes /

Incluye citas de P. Corneille.

Des tropes, ou des différens sens dans lesquels on peut prendre un même mot dans une même langue. Ouvrage utile pour l'intelligence des auteurs, et qui peut servir d'introduction à la rhétorique et à la logique.

Mode of access: Internet.

L'art de la rhétorique /

Greek and French on opposite pages.

A plea for religion and the sacred writings; addressed to the disciples of Thomas Paine, and wavering Christians of every persuasion. With an appendix, containing the author's determination to have relinquished his charge in the established church, and the reasons on which that determination was founded.

Mode of access: Internet.

La rhétorique d'Aristote : grec-français, avec des notes et un index des morceaux parellèles dans Ciceron et Quintilien /

Mode of access: Internet.

A plea for religion and the sacred writings : addressed to the disciples of Thomas Paine and wavering Christians of every persuasion ... /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Caffeine, cognition, and persuasion: Evidence for caffeine increasing the systematic processing of persuasive messages

Caffeine is known to increase arousal, attention, and information processing-all factors implicated in facilitating persuasion. In a standard attitude-change paradigm, participants consumed an orange-juice drink that either contained caffeine (3.5 mg/kg body weight) or did not (placebo) prior to reading a counterattitudinal communication (anti-voluntary euthanasia). Participants then completed a thought-listing task and a number of attitude scales. The first experiment showed that those who consumed caffeine showed greater agreement with the communication (direct attitude: voluntary euthanasia) and on an issue related to, but not contained in, the communication (indirect attitude: abortion). The order in which direct and indirect attitudes were measured did not affect the results. A second experiment manipulated the quality of the arguments in the message (strong vs. weak) to determine whether systematic processing had occurred. There was evidence that systematic processing occurred in both drink conditions, but was greater for those who had consumed caffeine. In both experiments, the amount of message-congruent thinking mediated persuasion. These results show that caffeine can increase the extent to which people systematically process and are influenced by a persuasive communication.

Majority versus minority influence:the role of message processing in determining resistance to counter-persuasion

Two experiments examined the extent to which attitudes changed following majority and minority influence are resistant to counter-persuasion. In both experiments participants' attitudes were measured after being exposed to two messages, delayed in time, which argued opposite positions (initial message and counter-message). In the first experiment, attitudes following minority endorsement of the initial message were more resistant to a second counter-message only when the initial message contained strong versus weak arguments. Attitudes changed following majority influence did not resist the second counter-message and returned to their pre-test level. Experiment 2 varied whether memory was warned (i.e., message recipients expected to recall the message) or not, to manipulate message processing. When memory was warned, which should increase message processing, attitudes changed following both majority and minority influence resisted the second counter-message. The results support the view that minority influence instigates systematic processing of its arguments, leading to attitudes that resist counter-persuasion. Attitudes formed following majority influence yield to counter-persuasion unless there is a secondary task that encourages message processing.