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Yun Tao1,2, Zhi Liu1,2, Tobias Tempel3
1School of Educational Science and Management, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|October 28, 2017
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[This corrects the article on p. 1391 in vol. 8, PMID: 28861022.].
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