Emotions bias perceptions of realism in audiovisual media: Why we may take fiction for real

Discourse Processes

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-340

  Konijn, Elly A ^a   Van Der Molen, Juliette H Walma ^b   Van Nes, Sander ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 68749115271     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01638530902728546     Document Type: Article

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