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   On this view, character assassination is an essential process of communication and persuasion, as well as a force of major social processes. At a micro level, it often serves as a rhetorical device in competition- and conflict-driven situations.

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3. socialtheoryapplied.com › journal › jastAdvancing Research on Character Assassination and Stigma ...

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   Apr 8, 2021 · A compelling example is the character assassination strategy of silencing: "the attacker attempts to erase their public record from the collective memory," often post-mortem (Samoilenko, 2016, p. 116; also referred to as erasing; Icks et al., 2020).

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4. journals.sagepub.com › doi › 10Making words harmless: Why politicians survive character ...

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   Jul 26, 2024 · A textual analysis of the transcript of US Supreme Court judge-nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual assault trial finds that the attacks on him were classic examples of character assassination: They focused on negative and offensive traits (Benoit and Stein, 2021).

5. socialtheoryapplied.com › journal › jastThe Applied Social Theory of Character Assassination

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   The purpose is to broaden our understanding of character assassination as a social process and its outcomes as defined by everyday issues stemming from power struggles, competition, conflict, coercion, violence, and resistance, to name a few.

   • Author: Sergei A. Samoilenko

   • Publish Year: 2021

6. link.springer.com › content › pdfCharacter Assassination as Strategic Communication in EU ...

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   This chapter provides an overview of character assassination as strategic communication embedded in the context of political standoff. It explains how media shape public perceptions of political conflict by incorporating character assassination as a framing strategy. Next, it explores differences

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   Political psychology can provide a useful framework for studying character assassination for at least two reasons. First, as a discipline, political psychology examines the complex interaction between the world of politics, on the one hand, and peoples experience and behavior, on the other.

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   Why is character assassination a complex process?

   • Hence, the process of character assassination is a complex transaction among interconnected individuals and groups. Second, the sociocultural perspective studies the relational nature of interaction between various social actors.

   Character Assassination: The Sociocultural Perspective

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   What is an example of a character assassination strategy?

   • A compelling example is the character assassination strategy of silencing: "the attacker attempts to erase their public record from the collective memory," often post-mortem (Samoilenko, 2016, p. 116; also referred to as erasing; Icks et al., 2020).

   Advancing Research on Character Assassination and Stigma Communic…

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   What is the purpose of character assassination?

   • The purpose is to broaden our understanding of character assassination as a social process and its outcomes as defined by everyday issues stemming from power struggles, competition, conflict, coercion, violence, and resistance, to name a few.

   The Applied Social Theory of Character Assassination

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   Why are character assassination and stigma communication so deadly?

   • Indeed, we argue that a central process in stigma communication and character assassination is to move from one extreme to the other, resulting in social death. To be clear, not every character attack or stigma communication has these intrinsic message features; when they do, this work explains why they are so deadly.

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   How does character assassination affect society?

   • As several studies demonstrate, attempts to label, degrade, and stigmatize unwanted personas and social groups have been integrated into society as mechanisms of control and conformity. Interestingly, however, character assassination can also serve as a means of resistance, subversion, and change.

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   Is character assassination a Structurational phenomenon?

   • Character assassination as a structurational phenomenon. In S.A. Samoilenko, M. Icks, E. Shiraev, E., & J. Keohane.

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9. link.springer.com › content › pdfCharacter Assassination: How Political Psychologists Can ...

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   Why do character attacks take place? Why do exaggerations, slander, and lies become effective in damaging someone’s reputation? Why are some peo-ple incapable of detecting and unwilling to detect deception and fabrications in character attacks? Would it be more effective for the attackers to refrain from character assassination and use reason ...