Making Connections and Avoiding Loneliness: Approach and Avoidance Social Motives and Goals

Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 203-216

  Gable, Shelly L ^a   Berkman, Elliot T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203888148-26     Document Type: Chapter

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