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Psychologist

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 216-219

  O'Donovan, Aoife ^a   Hughes, Brian M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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