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  2. Fear appeal - Wikipedia

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    Fear appeal is a term used in psychology, sociology and marketing.It generally describes a strategy for motivating people to take a particular action, endorse a particular policy, or buy a particular product, by arousing fear.

  3. Propaganda techniques - Wikipedia

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    Appeals to authority cite prominent figures to support a position, idea, argument, or course of action. Appeal to fear Appeals to fear seek to build support by instilling anxieties and panic in the general population, for example, Joseph Goebbels exploited Theodore Kaufman's Germany Must Perish! to claim that the Allies sought the extermination ...

  4. Appeal to fear - Wikipedia

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    An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by attempting to increase fear towards an alternative. An appeal to fear is related to the broader strategy of fear appeal and is a common tactic in marketing, politics, and media (communication ...

  5. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt - Wikipedia

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    Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a manipulative propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling, and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information , and is a manifestation of the appeal to fear .

  6. Fear pattern - Wikipedia

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    Fear-only fear pattern Partial-relief fear pattern Fear-relief fear pattern. In advertising, a fear pattern is a sequence of fear arousal and fear reduction that is felt by the viewing audience when exposed to an advertisement, [1] which attempts to threaten the audience by presenting a negative physical, psychological or social consequence that is likely to occur if they engage in a ...

  7. TikTok creators fear a ban as the House prepares to vote on a ...

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    Okamoto, who is Asian-American, also suspects that running beneath the anti-TikTok rhetoric is a strain of fear and racism, echoing many other Asian-Americans who have looked on with growing alarm.

  8. Campaign advertising - Wikipedia

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    After she finishes counting, a voice off camera begins a countdown to a nuclear explosion. The ad ends with an appeal to vote Johnson, "because the stakes are too high for you to stay home." The commercial used fear and guilt, an effective advertising principle, to make people take action to protect the next generation. [2]

  9. Trump stokes alarm about view of presidential power with ...

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    Fear growing out of King George III abusing his power by wanting to be the judge, the jury and the executioner," said David Schultz, a constitutional law expert at Hamline University.