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Communication and Persuasion

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  • In Carl I. Hovland

    …these studies were published in Communication and Persuasion (1953; reprinted 1961), by Hovland, I.L. Janis, and H.H. Kelley, and in later monographs. This research led Hovland to an analysis of symbolic processes and to work in the field of computer simulation of human thought processes.

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