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Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
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Volume 19, 2006 - Issue 1
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Attentional processes, anxiety, and the regulation of cortisol reactivity

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Pages 81-92 | Received 03 Feb 2004, Published online: 25 Jan 2007

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