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Pity Appeals

Pity Appeals is a persuasive rhetorical strategy within the category of emotional appeals that specifically invokes feelings of sorrow, compassion, or empathy toward a person or group in order to influence attitudes, judgments, or actions.

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280

Citations

21

Authors

12

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Publications per year

2017–2026

2

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Publications

12

Disclosing a disability: Do strategy type and onset controllability make a difference?

Brent J. Lyons, Sabrina D. Volpone, Jennifer Wessel et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology · 2017 · 67 citations

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Beyond Pity and Fear

John Marincola · Ancient Society · 2003 · 39 citations

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Relevant Appeals to Force, Pity and Popular Pieties

Charles F. Kielkopf · Informal Logic · 1984 · 23 citations · Full text

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The effects of pity on self- and other-perceptions of mental illness

Adam W. Fominaya, Patrick W. Corrigan, Nicolas Rüsch · Psychiatry Research · 2016 · 22 citations

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Eliciting Help Without Pity: The Effect of Changing Media Images on Perceptions of Disability

Stuart B. Kamenetsky, Christina Dimakos, Asal Aslemand et al. · Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation · 2015 · 21 citations

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Authors

21

  1. EC
    Eamonn Callan

    Stanford University, United States

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  2. LA
    Lawrin Armstrong

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  3. JM
    John Marincola

    Florida State University, United States

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  4. CF
    Charles F. Kielkopf

    The Ohio State University, United States

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  5. JW
    Jennifer Wessel

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    1 publications · 67 citations

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Institutions

12

  1. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    81 citations

  2. Giessen School of Theology

    Giessen, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  3. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

    Giessen, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  4. Universität Ulm

    Ulm, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  5. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  6. University of New Mexico

    Albuquerque, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    67 citations

  7. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    67 citations

  8. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    67 citations

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  2. Psychiatry Research

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  3. Informal Logic

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  4. Argumentation

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  5. Theory & Event

    1 publications · 14 citations

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