Media violence effects and interventions: The roles of communication and emotion

Communication and Emotion: Essays in Honor of Dolf Zillmann

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 197-219

  Cantor, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410607584     Document Type: Chapter

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