Verbal aggression and prefrontal cortex asymmetry

Arguments, Aggression, and Conflict: New Directions in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 26-43

  Heisel, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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