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The Effects of Mass Communication

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Social Sciences, Communication, Political Communication +12

Effects of fear-arousing communications.

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Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +17

An experimental study of psychological resistances to fear arousing communications.

Irving L. Janis, Robert F. Terwilliger · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1962 · 203 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +12

Complex learning and conditioning as a function of anxiety.

Ilya Farber, Kenneth W. Spence · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1953 · 187 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +12

The relationship between coping and avoiding behavior and response to fear-arousing propaganda.

Michael J. Goldstein · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1959 · 145 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +9