Dealing with feelings: Positive and negative discrete emotions as mediators of news framing effects

Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 189-209

  Lecheler, Sophie ^a   Schuck, Andreas R T ^a   De Vreese, Claes H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Emotions; Experiments; Framing effects; Mediators; Political opinions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884190409     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/commun-2013-0011     Document Type: Article

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