Please your self: Social identity effects on selective exposure to news about in- and out-groups

Journal of Communication

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 515-535

  Knobloch Westerwick, Silvia ^a   Hastall, Matthias R ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; MEDIA ROLE; SOCIAL IMPACT; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 77955760975     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01495.x     Document Type: Article

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