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Articles

Fight or flight? Attributing responsibility in response to mixed congruent and incongruent partisan news in selective exposure media environments

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Pages 1327-1352 | Received 13 Mar 2018, Accepted 20 Dec 2018, Published online: 22 Jan 2019

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