Situational coping with loss and control over gambling in regular poker machine players

Australian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 160-169

  Shepherd, Lee ^b   Dickerson, Mark ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035564492     PISSN: 00049530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049530108255140     Document Type: Article

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