Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Session 2, 10:30-11:15am
Playing With Fire: The Science of Confronting Negative Information in Persuasive Legal Writing
Kathy Stanchi
Program Code: W2A
This presentation will summarize the social science research on the effectiveness of disclosing adverse information in a persuasive message. The presentation will then analyze how the results of that research can shed light on strategies for handling adverse information in persuasive legal writing.