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The Social Dimension of Stress: Experimental Manipulations of Social Support and Social Identity in the Trier Social Stress Test
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The Social Dimension of Stress: Experimental Manipulations of Social Support and Social Identity in the Trier Social Stress Test

Published on: November 19, 2015

I G Sarason, B R Sarason, E H Potter

    Psychosomatic Medicine
    |March 1, 1985
    PubMed

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