Communicator Performance under Cognitive Stress
- 1 June 1962
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journalism Quarterly
- Vol. 39 (2) , 169-178
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107769906203900204
Abstract
What happens when a writer is given information which attacks his beliefs and thus puts him under stress? This research study shows it takes him longer to write his message, he makes more grammatical and spelling errors, he performs more editing, and the message is less readable.Keywords
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