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Jeremy P Jamieson1, Matthew K Nock, Wendy Berry Mendes

  • 1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. jamieson@wjh.harvard.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
|September 28, 2011
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