An evolutionary perspective on entertainment

Psychology of Entertainment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 423-433

  Ohler, Peter ^a   Nieding, Gerhild ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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