Resting Arousal, Sensation Seeking, and Music Preference

Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 229-250

  McNamara, Linda ^b   Ballard, Mary E ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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