Fiction and social cognition: The effect of viewing award-winning television dramas on theory of mind.

2015/09/28 by Jessica E. Black, Jessica Black, Jennifer Barnes +1 · 64 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Advertising #Child Development and Digital Technology #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Media Influence and Health #Media, Gender, and Advertising #Psychology #Social cognition #Theory of mind

paper · doi:10.1037/aca0000031

published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9(4), 423-429 (American Psychological Association (APA))

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Citations

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