The effect of learning about techniques of propaganda on subsequent reaction to propagandistic communications

Abstract

I F, as many scholars suggest, 1 our current rhetorical climate is characterized by increasing irrationalism, it would seem advisable for speech educators to take a closer look at the phenomenon of propaganda and the methods available for teaching students to resist its impact. Although many scholars have examined propaganda from a descriptive point-ofview, experimentalists in speech have shown comparatively little interest in the topic.