Sentence examples for persuasive device from inspiring English sources

Snacks are universally appreciated and can be a strong persuasive device.

Despite the discussion about 'gamification' in marketing and a tradition of game studies in the humanities, there have been few attempts to treat computer games not only as trivial culture, but as a "persuasive device", as a way to shape public opinion.

Within the systems of THEME and INFORMATION, unmarked and marked structures can also be used as persuasive devices to project certain ideological representations, as will be discussed later in the Findings and Discussion section.

From one point of view, the poster's popularity as a persuasive communication device is at odds with its inability to influence overall prescribing rates more than the other intervention components.

Persuasive technologies are intelligent devices that interact intelligently with human behavior, with the explicit aim to influence this behavior in a desirable direction.

Another trend in captology will be the proliferation of devices created specifically for persuasive purposes.

Grade or Level of Students: Secondary (ages 14-18) Idea: Using The New York Times's Opinion section to teach columnists' devices in their art of persuasive language, and to create debate on their topics — in and out of class.

We tested the efficacy of using electronic monitoring devices that incorporate informative and persuasive elements to improve adherence to a prescribed daily medication regimen intended to reduce use of asthma rescue medications.

Mostly, though, it's a labored device that works against Mr. Doremus's sometimes persuasive groping for realism.

What those handheld, low-definition recording devices capture is less unvarnished reality — or a persuasive simulacrum of it — than dinner theater or underrehearsed made-for-television drama.

Resembling bizarre mittens or a benevolent take on a torture device, the object seems both threatening and comforting, its purpose unknowable but its presence persuasive. .