From Fear to Flow: Personality and information interaction

From Fear to Flow: Personality and Information Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-225

  Heinstrom, Jannica ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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DOI: 10.1533/9781780630366     Document Type: Book

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