Motivated message processing: How motivational activation influences resource allocation, encoding, and storage of TV messages

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 508-517

  Lang, Annie ^a   Sanders Jackson, Ashley ^b   Wang, Zheng ^c   Rubenking, Bridget ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Media; Memory; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881239850     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9329-y     Document Type: Article

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