Problems of measuring suspense

Suspense: Conceptualizations, Theoretical Analyses, and Empirical Explorations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 329-346

  Friedrichsen, Mike ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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