Where psychophysiology meets the media: Taking the effects out of mass media research

Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 185-206

  Lang, Annie ^a   Potter, Robert F ^a   Bolls, Paul ^b  

^a Indiana University   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

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