TY - BOOK AU - Pratkanis,Anthony R. AU - Aronson,Elliot TI - Age of propaganda: the everyday use and abuse of persuasion SN - 9780805074031 AV - HM 263 P912a 2001 U1 - 303.375 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Holt Paperbacks KW - Propaganda KW - Persuasion (Psychology) KW - Public opinion KW - Advertising KW - Television in propaganda KW - Primera Jornada de Catalogacion KW - Persuasión (Psicología) KW - Protección del consumidor KW - Psicología social KW - Publicidad N1 - "Primero publicado en tapa dura en 1992 por WH Freeman and Company. Primera Owl Books edición 2002"; Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-397) and index; Our age of propaganda -- Mysterious influence -- Mindless propaganda, thoughtful persuasion -- The rationalizing animal -- The four stratagems of influence -- Words of influence -- Pictures in our heads -- Saddam Hussein : the Hitler of Baghdad? -- Questionable persuasion -- The power of decoys -- The psychology of factoids -- The credible communicator -- Breakfast of champions, junk food for the self -- How do you persuade if everyone knows you are untrustworthy, unbelievable, and disliked? -- The manufacture of credibility -- Prizefighter slays eleven with one look : the influence of mass media models -- Packages -- Self-sell -- Naked attics and neighborhood war heroes : on vividness in communication -- Why do they keep repeating the same ads? -- If you have nothing to say--distract them -- If you want to gain an inch, ask for a mile--sometimes! -- Protagoras' ideal : one-sided puffery versus two-sided debate -- The fear appeal -- The granfalloon technique -- Guilt sells -- What is the influence of one flower given? -- The committed heart -- To practice what you preach -- The psychology of scarcity and the mystique of phantoms -- Education or propaganda? -- What is news? -- On the ineffectiveness of information campaigns -- Subliminal sorcery : who is seducing whom? -- Persuasion direct -- How to become a cult leader -- Propaganda in the Third Reich : a case for uncertainty -- Is forewarned forearmed? Or how to really resist propaganda -- What we can do to stop propaganda in its tracks -- Peitho's children ER -