id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1927 Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia .html text/html 4378 488 55 Appeals to emotion are intended to draw inward feelings such as fear, pity, and joy from the recipient of the information with the end goal of convincing them that the statements being presented in the fallacious argument are true or false, resp. The cognitive dimension refers "to beliefs that one holds about the attitude object, and behavior has been used to describe overt actions and responses to the attitude object." Affect, meanwhile, describes "the positive and negative feelings that one holds toward an attitude object", that is, the emotional dimension of an attitude.[14] Modern theorists have modified the tripartite theory to argue that an attitude "does not consist of these elements, but is instead a general evaluative summary of the information derived from these bases."[15] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1927.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1927.txt