Suspense, curiosity, and surprise: How discourse structure influences the affective and cognitive processing of a story

Poetics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 277-286

  Hocken, Hans ^a   Van Vliet, Mario ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 15744388799     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-422X(99)00021-2     Document Type: Article

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