The potentially adaptive features of peculiar beliefs

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 707-719

  Boden, M Tyler ^a   Berenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention to emotions; Beliefs; Clarity of emotions; Distress; Peculiarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043054430     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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