Motivational gravity

Motivation and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 133-156

  Carr, Stuart C ^a   Maclachlan, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b NONE

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