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    The document summarizes an episode of Friends where Ross tries to convince Phoebe of the theory of evolution using the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion. However, Phoebe is not open to changing her mind. In later clips, Ross brings evidence to convince her but Phoebe employs the Social Judgment Theory instead, appealing to Ross' emotions and logic to argue scientists can be wrong. Unexpectedly, she manages to get Ross to admit Darwin may have been mistaken, showing how beliefs can be stubbornly held regardless of evidence when minds are closed to changing.

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    The document summarizes an episode of Friends where Ross tries to convince Phoebe of the theory of evolution using the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion. However, Phoebe is not open to changing her mind. In later clips, Ross brings evidence to convince her but Phoebe employs the Social Judgment Theory instead, appealing to Ross' emotions and logic to argue scientists can be wrong. Unexpectedly, she manages to get Ross to admit Darwin may have been mistaken, showing how beliefs can be stubbornly held regardless of evidence when minds are closed to changing.

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    The document summarizes an episode of Friends where Ross tries to convince Phoebe of the theory of evolution using the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion. However, Phoebe is not open to changing her mind. In later clips, Ross brings evidence to convince her but Phoebe employs the Social Judgment Theory instead, appealing to Ross' emotions and logic to argue scientists can be wrong. Unexpectedly, she manages to get Ross to admit Darwin may have been mistaken, showing how beliefs can be stubbornly held regardless of evidence when minds are closed to changing.

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    Speech 30 Module 5 - Jhocson

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    The document summarizes an episode of Friends where Ross tries to convince Phoebe of the theory of evolution using the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion. However, Phoebe is not open to changing her mind. In later clips, Ross brings evidence to convince her but Phoebe employs the Social Judgment Theory instead, appealing to Ross' emotions and logic to argue scientists can be wrong. Unexpectedly, she manages to get Ross to admit Darwin may have been mistaken, showing how beliefs can be stubbornly held regardless of evidence when minds are closed to changing.

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    JHOCSON, Dominique Beatrice D.

    201789288
    Speech 30 WFU

    After a shocking revelation that Phoebe doesn’t believe in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, (Dr.)
    Ross was triggered and thus the whole episode revolved around him trying to convince her
    otherwise. Phoebe being the eccentric character she is disclosed that she is a skeptic of many
    scientific facts like gravity. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model, Ross scrutinized Phoebe's
    statement of evolution being too “easy”. Ross immediately responded with the facts about the
    theory. Since Phoebe was not in it to change her mind, these facts seem to fly over her head.
    She responded in a manner that seemed to cut the conversation right there but Ross not being
    able to accept her responses kept the conversation going. This model was not working
    effectively from the beginning because Phoebe just was not going to change her mind. She was
    not motivated to understand Ross’ reasoning.

    In the second clip, Ross asks Phoebe why she doesn’t believe in evolution. In an attempt to
    hear her reasoning out, she shuts down the conversation with an “I don’t know, just don’t”. Thus
    driving Ross more towards convincing her since she doesn’t seem to have any good reason as
    to why she doesn’t believe in the theory. Ross then continues to believe that with enough
    evidence he will be able to convince Phoebe.

    In the last clip, he arrives in the apartment with a brief-case full of artifacts ready to finally
    convince her. Ideally, the evidence he brought should convince someone who is willing to have
    their mind changed. Since Phoebe is set on her decision, she resorts to her own negotiation in
    order to convince Ross to believe her reasoning. I believe she utilized more of the Social
    Judgement Theory. She knew that Ross wouldn’t not quit until she agreed with him. She
    presented her reasoning but instead of relying on facts to convince him, she stretched his
    logical reasoning by saying that scientists like him were wrong at some point about their
    theories and only time could tell if the theory of evolution is real or not. She finished her
    argument by appealing to his emotions by asking if he’s that arrogant that he wouldn’t even
    admit that he could be slightly wrong about the theory of evolution. Unexpectedly, Ross agrees
    with her latter question that he could be wrong about the theory. She then makes him question
    his response by asking how he could face himself after being convinced by her short but
    emotional rebuttal. The grounds of this debate were obviously not made on fair grounds. Both
    sides were stern about their beliefs and were not in this to change their minds. But Phoebe's
    sudden attitude change from her usual soft and cheeky self to a serious one was enough to
    convince a doctor of paleontology that maybe Darwin was wrong after all.

    Source:

    Life, Fam’s. “Social Judgement Theory v. Elaboration Likelihood Model.” THE FAM’S LIFE, 12
    Sept. 2018, famlife.home.blog/2018/09/12/sjt-vs-elm/. Accessed 9 June 2023.
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