Touching the base: heart-warming ads from the 2016 U.S. election moved viewers to partisan tears

Beate Seibt1,2, Thomas W Schubert1,2, Janis H Zickfeld1

  • 1a Department of Psychology , University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway.

Cognition & Emotion
|March 8, 2018
PubMed

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