Building upon the experimental design in media violence research: The importance of including receiver interpretations

Journal of Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 315-329

  Potter, W James ^a   Tomasello, Tami K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0042821909     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/joc/53.2.315     Document Type: Article

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