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Commentary on Elkjær et al.'s (2020) Meta-Analysis on Expansive Versus Contractive Nonverbal Displays

Robert Körner1,2, Lukas Röseler1,3, Astrid Schütz1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg.

Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science
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