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You can’t beat the feeling: How emotional responses to exemplars in news stories affect perceptions of expert sources and the message of the news story 你无法抗拒这种感觉:对新闻故事中的范例的情绪反应如何影响对专家来源的看法和新闻故事的信息

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Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajms_00048_1

L. Heiselberg, Morten Skovsgaard

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