Love makes you real: Favorite television characters are perceived as "real" in a social facilitation paradigm

Social Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 156-168

  Gardner, Wendi L ^a   Knowles, Megan L ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 61649100493     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2008.26.2.156     Document Type: Article

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