Talk:Appeal to fear/Archives/2013
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Merge
Someone else tagged it, but I support a merger of Fear appeals here. Tijfo098 (talk) 09:55, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
- I agree, and I think Fear appeals should be merged into this one, because 1) Appeal to fear is a better name, and 2) the upper part of Fear appeals is messy. Lova Falk talk 18:36, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
- I disagree. Fear appeals are an extensively researched method of persuasion that depends upon inciting a small degree of fear in order to motivate further processing of the message. Appeals to fear are a rhetorical device aimed at PREVENTING elaborated processing of the message. Although they appear similar on the surface they are used, and behave, quite differently. arkhetypon (talk) 11:25, 24 January 2013