Social motivation across the life span

Growing Together: Personal Relationships Across the Life Span

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 341-367

  Lang, Frieder R ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499852.014     Document Type: Chapter

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