Paul, metaphors and persuasion

Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier

The author discusses the architectural plans of the Mundaneum made in the 1930s by the Belgian modernist architect Maurice Heymans in the footsteps of Le Corbusier and in collaboration with Paul Otlet. The Mundaneum was the utopian concept of a world center for the accumulation, organization, and dissemination of knowledge, invented by the visionary encyclopedist and internationalist Paul Otlet...

پل کلودل Paul Claudel

Albert Benveniste , Paul Caspi , Paul

In this paper, we present a theory of synchronous data-ow languages. Our theory is supported by both some heuristic analysis of applications and some theoretical investigation of the data-ow paradigm. Our model covers both behavioural and operational aspects, and allows both synchronous and asynchronous styles of implementation for synchronous programs. This model served as a basis to establish...

Voice Tone and Persuasion

An experiment was performed to test the hypothesis that the outcome of a vocal nonverbal attempt at persuasion can be affected by the participants' skills in nonverbal communication. Subjects' vocal sending or vocal decoding abilities were pretested. Senders and decoders were agents and recipients, respectively, of social influence in a field experiment in which social influence took the form o...

Attitudes and persuasion.

Study of attitudes and persuasion remains a defining characteristic of contemporary social psychology. This review outlines recent advances, with emphasis on the relevance of today's work for perennial issues. We reiterate the distinction between attitude formation and change, and show its relevance for persuasion. Single- and dual-process models are discussed, as are current views on dissonanc...