Personality and Emotion in Later Life

Aging in America: [3 volumes]

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages V1-102-V1-134

  Hooker, Karen ^a   Choun, Soyoung ^a   Hall, Brandi ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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