Effects of long-term exposure to news stereotypes on implicit and explicit attitudes

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2370-2390

  Arendt, Florian ^a   Northup, Temple ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit attitudes; Local news; Media stereotypes; Newspapers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011590023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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