Interpersonal threats and automatic motives

Social Motivation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-35

  Park, Justin H ^a   Buunk, Abraham P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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