The effects of visual images in political ads: Experimental testing of distortions and visual literacy

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Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Noggle, Gary ^b   Kaid, Lynda Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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