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Brief Article

“When i feel lonely, i’m not nice (and neither are you)”: the short- and long-term relation between loneliness and reports of social behaviour

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Pages 1029-1038 | Received 20 Mar 2020, Accepted 15 Mar 2021, Published online: 25 Mar 2021

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