Supporting the Miller-Campbell model, studies of order effects with competing persuasive speeches continue to most consistently find recency effects. Failure to find primacy under the conditions where the model predicts it may be a consequence of short opposing speeches. Thus, further elaborations of the model may require such notions as “memory consolidation” of the first speech and/or the association of fatigue and boredom with the second speech.
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