Online emotional appeals and political participation: The effect of candidate affect on mass behavior

New Media and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1132-1150

  Jones, Philip Edward ^a   Hoffman, Lindsay H ^a   Young, Dannagal G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional appeals; Internet; political participation; target affect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885809448     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812466717     Document Type: Article

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