Empathy and Affective Orientation as Predictors of Identification with Television Characters

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-156

  Chory Assad, Rebecca M ^a   Cicchirillo, Vincent ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective Orientation; Characters; Empathy; Identification; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953409503     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036810500130786     Document Type: Article

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