John Donahue

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Donahue is involved.

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Donahue, John 2014 A true authoritarian type: How fonts can facilitate positive opinions for powerful groups The Expression of Inequality in Interaction: Power, dominance, and status, Pishwa, Hanna and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 193–211 | Article

To convey authority in a document, people choose specific typefaces (or fonts). Studies find that repeating a message makes it more persuasive, and that different typefaces lead to different associations. Also, statements are more memorable when written in harder-to-read typefaces; yet more… read more