Changing Real-World Beliefs With Controversial Movies: Processes and Mechanisms of Narrative Persuasion

Journal of Communication

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 514-531

  Igartua, Juan José ^a   Barrios, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA ROLE; MODELING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

SPAIN;

EID: 84861935829     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01640.x     Document Type: Article

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