Predicting emotions and meta-emotions at the movies: The role of the need for affect in audiences' experience of horror and drama

Communication Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-190

  Bartsch, Anne ^a   Appel, Markus ^b   Storch, Dennis ^c  

^a ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Meta emotion; Movie experience; Need for affect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949344223     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650209356441     Document Type: Article

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