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Gözde Kiral Ucar1, Matthias Donat2, Jonathan Bartholomaeus3

  • 1Department of Psychology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (COMU), Çanakkale, Turkey.

Current Psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
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