An advertisement with emotive appeal is playing upons it's targets emotions. Like when a baby nappy add shows a mother and baby happy together, the target audience would be mother's with babies, and it would be playing upon the mother's emotions to make her baby happy, healthy and safe.
An advertisement with rational appeal using it's targets logic to sell it's product. An example would be a budget air line showing a graph with its average cost per ticket compared to unnamed popular airline and showing that their tickets are drastically cheaper.
Michael Neenan has written: 'Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy' 'Learning from Errors in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy' 'Counselling Individuals'
name some therapy that acts on thoughts
Albert Ellis
activating event
it does not use humor
Rational Emotive Therapy focuses on challenging and changing irrational beliefs that cause emotional distress, while Cognitive Therapy focuses on identifying and changing negative thought patterns that contribute to emotional difficulties. Rational Emotive Therapy is more directive and confrontational, while Cognitive Therapy is more collaborative and problem-solving oriented. Both therapies aim to improve emotional well-being by changing cognitive processes.
Our thoughts have no influence over our feelings
activating event belief
Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT).
Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis is associated with the therapeutic approach known as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). This approach focuses on identifying and challenging irrational beliefs that lead to emotional distress and replacing them with healthier, more rational beliefs. Ellis believed that our thoughts about events are what ultimately determine our emotional reactions.
REBT focuses on helping patients discover these irrational beliefs that guide their behavior and replace them with rational beliefs and thoughts in order to relieve their emotional distress.