Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction

1956/08/01 by Donald Horton, R. Richard Wohl, Robert Wohl · 11 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Impact of Technology on Adolescents #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Social psychology #Social relation

paper · doi:10.1080/00332747.1956.11023049

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Abstract

(1956). Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction. Psychiatry: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 215-229.

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