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Hedges, Tag Questions, Message Processing, and Persuasion.

This study explored the effects of tag questions, hedges, and argument quality on receivers’ perceptions of a speaker, perceptions of message quality, cognitive responses, and attitude change. The results showed that tag questions and argument quality directly affected speaker and message quality pe...

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Published in:Journal of Language & Social Psychology Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 341 - 350
Main Authors: Hosman, Lawrence A., Siltanen, Susan A.
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Sep2011
Subjects:
Message processing (Telecommunication)
Impression formation (Psychology)
Tag questions
Attitude change (Psychology)
Debate
Multivariate analysis
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
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