Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions

Media Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-302

  Bartsch, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84866142561     PISSN: 15213269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2012.693811     Document Type: Article

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