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Original Research Reports

Executive Control, Cytokine Reactivity to Social Stress, and Depressive Symptoms: Testing the Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression

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Pages 60-68 | Received 06 Oct 2018, Accepted 03 Jul 2019, Published online: 31 Jul 2019

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