Bullying the media: Cultural and climato-economic readings of press repression versus press freedom

Applied Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 354-376

  Van de Vliert, Evert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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EID: 79956107923     PISSN: 0269994X     EISSN: 14640597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2010.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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