LMFAO! Humor as a Response to Fear: Decomposing Fear Control within the Extended Parallel Process Model

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

• Publication date

  2017-01-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/08838151.2016.1273921PMID 29527092PMCID PMC5844502
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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