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PersuasionPsychologyFear appealSocial psychologyEmpirical researchCommunication theoryPersonalityCognitive psychologyEpistemologyCommunication
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- book-chapter
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- 119-186
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- 1332
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Howard Leventhal
(1970).
Findings and Theory in the Study of Fear Communications.
Advances in experimental social psychology
, 119-186.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60091-x
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- DOI
- 10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60091-x