Gratuitous risk: A study of parachuting

Stress And Health: A Reversal Theory Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 119-130

  Apter, Michael J ^a   Batler, Robert ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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