Effects of popular exemplars in television news

Communication Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-119

  Lefevere, Jonas ^a   de Swert, Knut ^a   Walgrave, Stefaan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

exemplification; experiment; media effects; media sources; popular exemplars

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855597149     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650210387124     Document Type: Article

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