What is the truth? An application of the Extended Parallel Process Model to televised truth® ads

Nicole R Lavoie1, Brian L Quick

  • 1a Department of Communication , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Health Communication
|January 22, 2013
PubMed

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