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Fifty Shades of Darkness: A Socio-Cognitive Information-Processing Framework Applied to Narcissism and Psychopathy

Pages 309-333 | Received 10 Nov 2020, Accepted 18 Jan 2021, Published online: 03 Mar 2021

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