Media priming: An Updated Synthesis

Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 74-93

  Roskos Ewoldsen, David R ^a   Roskos Ewoldsen, Beverly ^a   Carpentier, Francesca Dillman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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