Media enjoyment as a function of affective dispositions toward and moral judgment of characters

The Routledge Handbook of Emotions and Mass Media

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 166-178

  Raney, Arthur A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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