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Publication details [#58683]

Harber, Kent D., Peter Podolski and Lisbeth Dyer. 2014. Hearing Stories That Violate Expectations Leads to Emotional Broadcasting. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 33 (1) : 5–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aggression | emotion | expectation | information processing | news reporting

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study examines whether the disparity theory of emotion accounts for emotional broadcasting. It is shown that violence subjection tempers awaited emotional excitement and revelation only for violent events but not for rare nonviolent events.