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This study has summarized the contemporary definition of social marketing and its areas of implementation. Constructing on this conceptualization, this research then explored how attractive the rational and emotional adverts used in social marketing were and analyzed how these particular models impacted upon the targeted audience using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study analyzed two posters of the Turkish Red Crescent. The first stage of the article qualitatively analyzed the messages conveyed by these posters with the help of semiotic analysis, then explained whether they possess either emotional or rational appeals, and finally established the concepts related to the two types of appeals. The second part of the article is based on a quantitative survey we conducted with two control groups. The first control group was given the first poster that possesses an emotional content where as the second group was only given the poster that conveys its message through rational logic. According to the results, participants approach towards both emotional and rational adverts used in the experiment varied primarily depending on their gender and whether or not they have donated blood before. In addition, the experiment also concluded that rational adverts were slightly more effective than the adverts with an emotional content.

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