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Discourse Processes Volume 55, 2018 - Issue 5-6: 2017 Society for Text and Discourse Conference Special Issue (Guest Editors: Tenaha O’Reilly, David N. Rapp, & John Sabatini)
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Evaluating whether stories can promote social cognition: Introducing the Social Processes and Content Entrained by Narrative (SPaCEN) framework

Raymond A. MarPsychology, York University, Toronto, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 454-479 | Published online: 26 Mar 2018

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