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The International Journal on the Biology of Stress
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Research Article

Variation in the stress response between high- and low-neuroticism female undergraduates across the menstrual cycle

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Pages 503-509 | Received 03 Jan 2013, Accepted 17 Apr 2013, Published online: 24 May 2013

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