Argumentation and emotional cognition in advertisements

From Spinoza to today, it has been noted that human beings respond to what is unusual in our lives. The advertising community knows this and struggles to find ways to be unusual in the face of an estimated 3,500 ads per day. One way is through emotion. This paper examines arguments made in advertisements where emotional cognition is appealed to and how they differ from ads that appeal to rational cognition

Communications Apprehension: A Note About Ethnic Diversity

This paper summarizes the results of an intercultural survey of an ethnically diverse group of students in a Canadian university commerce program. The sample self-reported the level of communications apprehension on the 24-item Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, which uses six questions in four communications settings to generate four subscores and one general score for communications apprehension (McCroskey, 1982). While prior research results showed that the level of communications apprehension varies among ethnic groups, our research results showed no significant variation.Cet article récapitule les résultats d'une enquête interculturelle faite auprès d'un groupe d'étudiants, hétérogène au plan ethnique, issu d'un programme universitaire en administration. Les répondants ont évalué leur degré d'appréhension de communication à partir du questionnaire Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (McCroskey, 1982). Cet instrument, composé de 24 énoncés, mesure l'appréhension de communication via six énoncés reliés à quatre structures de communication. Bien que les recherches antérieures aient démontré que le degré d'appréhension de communication varie selon le groupe ethnique, nos résultats ne supportent pas cette hypothèse

Effect of remote ischaemic conditioning on clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI): a single-blind randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Remote ischaemic conditioning with transient ischaemia and reperfusion applied to the arm has been shown to reduce myocardial infarct size in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). We investigated whether remote ischaemic conditioning could reduce the incidence of cardiac death and hospitalisation for heart failure at 12 months. METHODS: We did an international investigator-initiated, prospective, single-blind, randomised controlled trial (CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI) at 33 centres across the UK, Denmark, Spain, and Serbia. Patients (age >18 years) with suspected STEMI and who were eligible for PPCI were randomly allocated (1:1, stratified by centre with a permuted block method) to receive standard treatment (including a sham simulated remote ischaemic conditioning intervention at UK sites only) or remote ischaemic conditioning treatment (intermittent ischaemia and reperfusion applied to the arm through four cycles of 5-min inflation and 5-min deflation of an automated cuff device) before PPCI. Investigators responsible for data collection and outcome assessment were masked to treatment allocation. The primary combined endpoint was cardiac death or hospitalisation for heart failure at 12 months in the intention-to-treat population. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02342522) and is completed. FINDINGS: Between Nov 6, 2013, and March 31, 2018, 5401 patients were randomly allocated to either the control group (n=2701) or the remote ischaemic conditioning group (n=2700). After exclusion of patients upon hospital arrival or loss to follow-up, 2569 patients in the control group and 2546 in the intervention group were included in the intention-to-treat analysis. At 12 months post-PPCI, the Kaplan-Meier-estimated frequencies of cardiac death or hospitalisation for heart failure (the primary endpoint) were 220 (8·6%) patients in the control group and 239 (9·4%) in the remote ischaemic conditioning group (hazard ratio 1·10 [95% CI 0·91-1·32], p=0·32 for intervention versus control). No important unexpected adverse events or side effects of remote ischaemic conditioning were observed. INTERPRETATION: Remote ischaemic conditioning does not improve clinical outcomes (cardiac death or hospitalisation for heart failure) at 12 months in patients with STEMI undergoing PPCI. FUNDING: British Heart Foundation, University College London Hospitals/University College London Biomedical Research Centre, Danish Innovation Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, TrygFonden

An Interdisciplinary Study of the Impact of Playing A Marketing Simulation Game on Student Knowledge of Management Accounting/Finance Principles

"An interdisciplinary study of student knowledge of accounting/finance principles in concert with their application in a marketing simulation game was undertaken in three sections of an Introduction to Marketing. The subjects were 454 second year marketing students who took an accounting/finance knowledge test composed of 14 multiple choice questions focused on understanding definitions and making calculations for selected concepts including unit contribution margin, inventory carrying costs, working capital, gross margins, return on sales, straightforward breakeven calculation, current ratio and mark-ups. A total of 368 students agreed to participate in the study from which 308 usable responses were collected, a 67.8% response rate. The study employed a simple pretest-posttest design resulting in a pretest average score of 42.4% (32.7% corrected for guessing) and a posttest average score of 55.5% (43.7% corrected for guessing) for the accounting/finance test. Paired t-test comparisons of pretest versus posttest scores for both uncorrected and corrected for guessing results were significantly different at the .000 level. The overall conclusion was that the marketing simulation experience led to an improvement in knowledge and application of accounting/finance principles. This study provides further evidence for the external validity of business simulation games. Acknowledgements: The research undertaken in this paper was funded by a grant from the Certified Management Accountants of Ontario