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Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
An International Journal
Volume 18, 2005 - Issue 4
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Anxiety as an “epistemic” emotion: An uncertainty theory of anxiety

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Pages 291-319 | Received 14 Mar 2004, Published online: 25 Jan 2007

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