Split-screen versus single-screen formats in televised debates: Does access to an opponent's nonverbal behaviors affect viewers' perceptions of a speaker's credibility?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 491-497

  Seiter, John S ^a   Abraham, Jeffrey A ^a   Nakagama, Brent T ^a  

^a Speech Commun ^*

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EID: 0040016595     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.2.491     Document Type: Article

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