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How can you effectively communicate your idea by including an appeal to emotion? How can you get people to care about your message?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want people to hear your message and do something about it, you have to get them to care. An appeal to emotion\u2014making people feel something\u2014is key to making messages stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn effective ways to make an appeal to emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Sticky Ideas Include an Appeal to Emotion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cE\u201d in the SUCCESs formula for creating \u201csticky\u201d messages stands for \u201cemotional.\u201d If you want your audience to act on your message\u2014for instance, to donate to a charitable cause or adopt healthier habits\u2014you need to make them <\/strong>care<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way to get people to care is to make them feel something. Some messages are designed with an appeal to emotion for cynical or self-serving reasons\u2014for instance, a political ad might try to scare you into not voting for a certain candidate. But more typically, you might want people to care about your message in order to help solve a problem like child obesity or to accomplish a goal, such as building a more fuel-efficient car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are multiple ways to create an appeal to emotion. The simplest and most familiar way is to give your message a face.<\/strong> You might call it the Mother Teresa principle. Known for devoting her life to caring for the poor, she once said, \u201cIf I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.\u201d She was motivated when she connected emotionally with an individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, many charities inspire donations and volunteerism by showing the faces of those they serve, whether they\u2019re hungry children, homeless people, or disaster victims. Similarly, animal welfare organizations prompt donations by showing neglected animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 1994 Carnegie-Mellon University study confirmed the psychology behind this. They tested two different appeals for donations to fight world hunger to see which was the most effective. One letter described the problem by using statistics (\u201cMore than 11 million people in Ethiopia are hungry\u201d), while a second letter told people their donations would go to a seven-year-old girl in Mali, Africa. Those who received the second letter gave more money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When another group of participants received both solicitation letters\u2014the statistics and the personal story\u2014they gave less than those who\u2019d received the child-focused letter alone. The researchers theorized that seeing the statistics put recipients into a more analytical frame of mind and their emotions took a back seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other considerations in crafting a message with an appeal to emotion include: identifying the right emotion, using powerful associations, and appealing to self-interest<\/a> or identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Identify the Right Emotion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Appealing to people\u2019s compassion for children or animals isn\u2019t complicated, but some messages and audiences are more challenging. In the following example, an organization called The American Legacy Foundation wanted to get teenagers to care enough to avoid smoking or to quit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success hinged on identifying the right emotion to tap.<\/strong> Anti-smoking ads sometimes try to make kids feel afraid by providing mortality statistics, which seldom works. But the foundation\u2019s \u201cTruth\u201d campaign in 1988 appealed to a stronger teenage emotion: resentment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ad showed a tractor-trailer pulling up in front of a building on a dark New York City street; a headline at the bottom of the screen identified it as \u201cthe headquarters of a major tobacco company.\u201d Teenagers jumped out and started unloading and stacking white sacks labeled as body bags. After they finished, a teenager with a megaphone asked, \u201cDo you know how many people tobacco kills every day?\u201d The toll, depicted by the number of body bags, was 1,800.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surveys asking teenagers whether they were likely to smoke a cigarette in the coming year indicated that those who\u2019d seen the ad were 66 percent less likely to smoke. Another study found that smoking among high school students dropped 18 percent and among middle school students 40 percent, during the two years of the campaign. The ad worked because it made teenagers feel resentful toward corporate exploitation<\/a>. It touched the right emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use the Power of Association<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To make people care about a message, it\u2019s not necessary to manufacture an emotion. You can make them care by using terms and concepts that already have an emotional association. You connect something people care about with something you want them to care about.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Using positive associations is a common advertising technique. For example, an ad might associate the positive qualities of a superstar athlete, like popularity and winning, with a certain brand of athletic shoe. Or an ad could associate happy, healthy children with a juice brand.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge is that many associations lose their emotional power over time because of overuse of the concept that initially triggered the desired emotion. In 1988, an organization called the Positive Coaching Alliance ran into this problem. They wanted to combat bad behavior in youth sports but found that talking about sportsmanship no longer worked because the emotional resonance of the term had eroded. Some coaches even viewed the concept negatively because youth leagues had started giving sportsmanship awards as consolation prizes. The message was that sportsmanship was for losers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PCA needed to replace \u201csportsmanship\u201d with a new term that associated good behavior with love and respect for the sport. They came up with the concept of \u201chonoring the game\u201d to suggest that participants and fans owed respect to their sport as an institution. The way to convey your respect was by behaving honorably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PCA found that after they conducted training that associated \u201chonoring the game\u201d with good behavior, the number of people ejected from games in one Northern California league plummeted. Team morale improved and enrollment increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appeal to Self-Interest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Another way to make people care about something is to appeal to their self-interest<\/a>: tell them how they personally will benefit <\/strong>from acting on your message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-Interest isn\u2019t always crass; sometimes it can be noble.<\/strong> For instance, people may join the military or choose certain occupations for altruistic reasons. They may contribute to a cause because they truly want to improve others\u2019 lives, not because they want to see their name on a plaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appeal to Identity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are times when people put group identity above self-interest<\/strong>, and it\u2019s necessary to adjust the benefits you highlight accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, a company marketing a safety video to firefighters for their outreach programs ended up insulting the firefighters in one department by offering a free gift of a popcorn popper in exchange for previewing the video. The firefighters were insulted because accepting a gift for paying attention<\/a> to safety was at odds with their identity as firefighters. Safety was a core value: they were accustomed to risking their lives for others\u2019 safety. They didn\u2019t need a gift to motivate or remind them of that. A better approach by the marketer would have been to offer to make a donation to a community safety program in exchange for previewing the video or to offer no gift at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone has group affiliations that can take precedence at times over self-interest. They include race, religion, political party, gender, and occupation<\/strong>. In situations where group identity is important to them, they do what they think people in their group would do\u2014for instance, they ask themselves how someone of their faith would vote on a particular issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An anti-litter campaign succeeded in Texas by appealing to group identity. The campaign was designed to appeal to the tough guys in pickups who did most of the littering. Instead of a slogan like \u201cPlease Don\u2019t Litter,\u201d the campaign appealed to their macho identity as Texans with the slogan, \u201cDon\u2019t Mess With Texas,\u201d which meant that real Texans don\u2019t litter. In a TV ad, two Dallas Cowboys football players picked up litter, expressed disgust, and menacingly promised to deliver the message, \u201cDon\u2019t Mess with Texas,\u201d to whomever they caught littering. Within a year, littering had declined nearly 30 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An appeal to emotion\u2014getting people to care\u2014is central to making your message stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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