Proposing emotion as a dimension of affective agenda setting: Separating affect into two components and comparing their second-level effects

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 315-327

  Coleman, Renita ^a   Wu, H Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957136020     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769901008700206     Document Type: Article

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