What makes us click? Demonstrating incentives for angry discourse with digital-age field experiments

Journal of Politics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1138-1152

  Ryan, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84867697956     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022381612000540     Document Type: Article

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