Testing causal direction in the influence of presumed media influence

Communication Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 801-824

  Tal Or, Nurit ^a   Cohen, Jonathan ^a   Tsfati, Yariv ^a   Gunther, Albert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

presumed media influence; third person perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649935648     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650210362684     Document Type: Article

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