The effects of visuals on ethical reasoning: What's a photograph worth to journalists making moral decisions?

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 835-850

  Coleman, Renita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; ETHICS; MORALITY; PHOTOGRAPH;

EID: 34047260786     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900608300407     Document Type: Article

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