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Compassion-focused reappraisal, benefit-focused reappraisal, and rumination after an interpersonal offense: Emotion-regulation implications for subjective emotion, linguistic responses, and physiology

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Pages 226-242 | Received 03 Jun 2009, Accepted 05 Mar 2010, Published online: 23 Jun 2010

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