Media entertainment

The Handbook of Communication Science

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 345-362

  Klimmt, Christoph ^a   Vorderer, Peter ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412982818.n20     Document Type: Chapter

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