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Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information

Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Stephan Lewandowsky University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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Joe Apai University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Pages 283-310 | Received 01 Sep 2009, Published online: 06 Aug 2010

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