In search for a social-behavioral approach-avoidance dimension associated with evaluative trait meanings

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 187-203

  Peeters, Guido ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LESP   (Belgium)

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