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The Trier Social Stress Test Protocol for Inducing Psychological Stress
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The Trier Social Stress Test Protocol for Inducing Psychological Stress

Published on: October 19, 2011

The multidimensional assessment of stressful life events

H A Skinner, H Lei

    The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    |September 1, 1980
    PubMed

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