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How We Are Persuaded: Encouraging Behavioral Change in Privacy Permission
final project

How We Are Persuaded: Encouraging Behavioral Change in Privacy Permission

May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

The Issue: Information privacy in the digital age is […]

You as a persuader: community workout challenge
2020, final project

You as a persuader: community workout challenge

April 30, 2020May 5, 2020

Planning & Persuasion Tactics Our main goal was to […]

How We Are Persuaded: “Preppers” And Schedules In The Time Of Social Distancing
2020, final project

How We Are Persuaded: “Preppers” And Schedules In The Time Of Social Distancing

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

How can we maintain healthy eating habits when our […]

2020, final project

You as a persuader – Stop the Giant Amorphous Time Blob⏱☁️

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

Project 2: You as a Persuader Jenni Lee and […]

2020, final project

You as a persuader: WE ARE WATCHING THE BEE MOVIE

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

In the time of COVID-19, people are to remain […]

2020, final project

You As A Persuader: Boosting Productivity

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

TEAM 3: Dani Delgado and Michael Powell Our project […]

You as a Persuader: Eating Mindfully
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You as a Persuader: Eating Mindfully

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

Preface Our goal was to encourage healthier eating habits […]

You as a persuader – Stay-the-F***-Home Bingo
2020, final project

You as a persuader – Stay-the-F***-Home Bingo

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

Team 8 – Stefano DiDonato, Junwoo Cheong, Julie Choi […]

You as a Persuader–For When You Miss Your Friends
2020, final project

You as a Persuader–For When You Miss Your Friends

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

How might we persuade people to engage in meaningful […]

You As A Persuader – Water Glass Clutter
2020, final project

You As A Persuader – Water Glass Clutter

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

Team 11 – Margot Gersing, Eliza Pratt, Thomas Youn […]

You as a Persuader: Eye Health
2020, final project

You as a Persuader: Eye Health

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020

Team 4: Stephanie Chen, Christine Chen, Jae Son “Today, […]

You as a Persuader: Sleep Schedule Intervention
2020, final project

You as a Persuader: Sleep Schedule Intervention

April 28, 2020May 5, 2020

Team 5: Hannah Cai, Julia Nishizaki, Cindy Zhang Since […]

You as a Persuader: Accountability within Group Fitness
2020, final project

You as a Persuader: Accountability within Group Fitness

April 28, 2020May 5, 2020

Team 6: Eunice Choe, Jenna Kim, Sophia Kim, Sabrina […]

2020, final project

You As a Persuader: Increasing Productivity with Desk Mate

April 28, 2020May 5, 2020

by Amber Lee, Eric Wong and Rachel Lee Background […]

Class 9/ 03.18: Virtual classroom / New habits and lifestyles
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Class 9/ 03.18: Virtual classroom / New habits and lifestyles

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020

Today’s class constituted the first one in our new […]

How Are You Persuaded- Understanding Today’s Meme Culture
2020, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded- Understanding Today’s Meme Culture

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Today I’m going to talk about today’s meme culture […]

How Are You Persuaded- News in Coronavirus Season
2020, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded- News in Coronavirus Season

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

As coronavirus spread across China, fear also becomes contagious […]

How Are You Persuaded- Tools for Sketching
2020, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded- Tools for Sketching

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

For this project I decided to focus on different […]

How are you persuaded? Toddler Edition
2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How are you persuaded? Toddler Edition

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

An analysis of persuasive language I use everyday working […]

How are you persuaded? Judging books by their cover (and some other factors)
2020, persuasive library

How are you persuaded? Judging books by their cover (and some other factors)

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

I’m an avid reader, and when I get the […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How You Are Persuaded: Why I Shop at Trader Joe’s and Nowhere else

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

by Christine Chen When I go grocery shopping, I […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How Are You Persuaded: The News Funnel

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Newspapers Need to Make Money, Too When we think […]

2020, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Nintendo

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

The new console, Nintendo Switch, is a dock system […]

How You Are Persuaded to Open (or not Open) Doors
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How You Are Persuaded to Open (or not Open) Doors

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

A photo essay documenting the types of doors we […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Amazon Customer Reviews

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

I’m sure many of you guys are somewhat dependant […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How are you persuaded? Dietary Supplements

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Supporting physical health and mental health simply by taking […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How Are You Persuaded: Instagram Advertisements

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Over the past few weeks, I paid careful attention […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

What’s For Dinner? – How I Am Persuaded

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Whenever I go out to dinner or at least […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

Engagement Vs. Addiction: How Modern Video Games Keep You Coming Back

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Intro to Dark Patterns Many of us in design […]

How Are You Persuaded: Emails
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Emails

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

For this project, I decided to analyze my habits […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How I am Persuaded: My Spam Folder

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

I spent time going through the past month of […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How are you persuaded? Poster collection

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Joel Neely | Stefano DiDonato  For the last two […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How You Are Persuaded: Why Do We Fall for Millennial Branding?

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

So I had 2 days left before my friend’s […]

How Are You Persuaded – Social Proof
2020, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded – Social Proof

March 5, 2020May 5, 2020

How the Social Proof Persuasion Technique Reoccurs Seamlessly Across […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

Welcoming You ;)

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

 Techniques of Welcoming I wanted to look into ways […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

How You Are Persuaded: How I Spend Hours Consuming Bon Appetit’s Content without Ever Cooking

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

For me, it was easy to settle on a […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

How are you persuaded: App Store

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Jae Son There are more than 100 million iPhone […]

How Are You Persuaded: You Are What You Eat
2020, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: You Are What You Eat

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Many people know I love food — I’m a […]

How You Are Persuaded: What store can persuade me to buy their jeans?
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How You Are Persuaded: What store can persuade me to buy their jeans?

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

By: Eunice Choe Over the course of a few […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

How are people persuaded : Anime shifting from negative to positive connotation

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

One of my hobbies that I developed since I […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

Give Us Your Money: Thomas Youn

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

I focused on the promotional emails that I receive […]

How You Are Persuaded: Contact Lenses, Colorism, and Cool Tones
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How You Are Persuaded: Contact Lenses, Colorism, and Cool Tones

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Contact Marketing and Purchasing; A Masterclass in Persuasion Tactics […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

Jaclyn’s Scarcity Diary ⏰?‼️

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

How my perception of urgency is leveraged to persuade […]

How Are You Persuaded: How the Weather Affects the Clothes I Wear
2020, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: How the Weather Affects the Clothes I Wear

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

For my project, because Pittsburgh’s weather is very inconsistent, […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library, Uncategorized

Why Mountain Dew attracts me?

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Honestly, Mountain Dew gets my heart. After I tried […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How You Are Persuaded: I use Postmates too much

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Like any normal college student, I spend a lot […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library, Uncategorized

How Are You Persuaded: Should I Uber or take the bus?

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Amber Lee Before the beginning of every academic year, […]

How Are You Persuaded: Oh shit, I’ve only had TikTok downloaded for a week but I’m completely addicted…
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Oh shit, I’ve only had TikTok downloaded for a week but I’m completely addicted…

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

As my close friends slowly all began to immerse […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Stress Levels and Food

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Since last year, I’ve lived in apartment-style housing, so […]

2020, Blog, persuasive library

How I’m (not) persuaded – anti-adblock

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

For as long as I’ve had my own computer, […]

How Are You Persuaded: Airbnb
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Airbnb

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

As a passionate traveler, Airbnb is one of the […]

How Are You Persuaded: Sponsored Advertisements
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Sponsored Advertisements

March 4, 2020May 5, 2020

Through the duration of a one week period I […]

How Are You Persuaded: Convincing My Parents I Should Live on a Farm
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Convincing My Parents I Should Live on a Farm

March 3, 2020May 5, 2020

Nick Marotta A few months ago, after I explained […]

How Are You Persuaded: What makes me happy?
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: What makes me happy?

March 3, 2020May 5, 2020

Sometime during the fall of 2017, I started using […]

How Are You Persuaded: Youtube Recommendations
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Youtube Recommendations

March 2, 2020May 5, 2020

I heavily rely on Youtube as a source for […]

2020, persuasive library, Uncategorized

Persuasion: Products as Value Metaphors

March 1, 2020May 5, 2020

Perhaps the ultimate goal of persuasion is to convince […]

How Are You Persuaded: Decision Making in Music Listening
2020, Blog, persuasive library

How Are You Persuaded: Decision Making in Music Listening

February 29, 2020May 5, 2020

Listening to music has long been part of my […]

Class 7 / 02.26: New Metaphors
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Class 7 / 02.26: New Metaphors

February 26, 2020February 28, 2020

In today’s class, we took a deeper dive into […]

Class 6 / 02.19: Workshop with Tara Campbell and Ariana Lutterman
Classes

Class 6 / 02.19: Workshop with Tara Campbell and Ariana Lutterman

February 19, 2020February 24, 2020

This week’s class was focused around how to better […]

Class 5 / 02.12: (Inter)personal Persuasion
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Class 5 / 02.12: (Inter)personal Persuasion

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020

During the class, and considering that many students are […]

Class 4 / 02.05: Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Classes

Class 4 / 02.05: Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis

February 7, 2020February 28, 2020

For our fourth class, we dived into the field […]

Class 3 / 01.29: Trip to the Heinz History Center
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Class 3 / 01.29: Trip to the Heinz History Center

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020

Today we changed the dynamics of our seminar by […]

Challenging Imaginaries: Bald Eagle
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Challenging Imaginaries: Bald Eagle

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

By Tay Aras Group Members: Nick Marotta, Lauren Kenny, […]

Group Assignment – Freedom in Suburbia
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Group Assignment – Freedom in Suburbia

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

In class last Wednesday, Mimi brought in photos that […]

Exploring Symbolism in the Bald Eagle
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Exploring Symbolism in the Bald Eagle

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

For the previous activity, my group decided to focus […]

Challenging Imaginaries: symbols and concepts
2020

Challenging Imaginaries: symbols and concepts

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

In class, we came together in groups to compare […]

Challenging Imaginaries: Health, Hero, Mexico/Mexicans
2020

Challenging Imaginaries: Health, Hero, Mexico/Mexicans

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

    Health: Battery This icon (a frowny face […]

Challenging Imaginaries: Health
2020

Challenging Imaginaries: Health

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

Team members: Sophia Fan, Eunice Choe, Margot Gersing, Elena […]

EmergenC Phase 2
2020

EmergenC Phase 2

January 28, 2020January 29, 2020

We worked on the imaginaries associated with health and […]

Prosperity and freedom
2020

Prosperity and freedom

January 28, 2020January 29, 2020

Challenging imaginaries: changing meanings and analysing semiotics and rhetorics […]

Vitamin C Imaginaries
2020

Vitamin C Imaginaries

January 28, 2020January 29, 2020

The object our group spent the majority of our […]

Reimagining Heroes
2020, Blog

Reimagining Heroes

January 25, 2020January 25, 2020

By Rachel LeeGroup Members: Jenni Lee, Alice Fang, Jaclyn […]

Class 2 / 01.22: Persuasion as an art and a skill
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Class 2 / 01.22: Persuasion as an art and a skill

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

Continuing with our exploration of the key concepts and […]

iRecycle Persuasive Message
2020, Blog

iRecycle Persuasive Message

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

Carnegie Mellon is trying to persuade students to recycle […]

Call to Action
2020, Blog

Call to Action

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

This sign attempts to create behavior change and make […]

Time, Money, and Fuel Saving Solar Trash Compactor
2020, Blog, Uncategorized

Time, Money, and Fuel Saving Solar Trash Compactor

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

Illustrates inner workings to emphasize its capabilities and highlights […]

Persuasion (visual attention & activity)
2020, Blog, Uncategorized

Persuasion (visual attention & activity)

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

The bright colors and interesting setup of the environment […]

Jenni, Rachel, Jacyln, Julie, Alice’s Persuasive Photos
2020, Blog

Jenni, Rachel, Jacyln, Julie, Alice’s Persuasive Photos

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

We were persuaded by the bright colors of the […]

Looking for Persuasion
2020, Blog

Looking for Persuasion

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

Looking for Persuasion Many examples were on signage “Dani, […]

Box Disposal
2020, Blog

Box Disposal

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

There is shelving next to the package pickup for […]

Some observations of persuasion
2020, Blog

Some observations of persuasion

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

Sidewalks persuade you to walk on them rather than […]

Ikjong Choi
2020, Blog

Ikjong Choi

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

Eric tried to buy a new drink at entropy […]

Follow along
2020, Blog

Follow along

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

Makes me want to follow the white line instead […]

Persuasive Images
2020, Blog

Persuasive Images

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

These ads are meant to persuade by promoting their […]

Persuasion images
2020, Blog

Persuasion images

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020
Class 1 / 01.15: Introduction to persuasion
Classes

Class 1 / 01.15: Introduction to persuasion

January 11, 2020January 15, 2020

Today we kickstarted the course by getting a sense […]

About this course

Persuasion / Spring 2020
Wednesdays, 12.00–2.50PM, MM 107

Contact details:
danlockton@cmu.edu
sjuri@andrew.cmu.edu

 

 

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