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Original Articles

Are people emotionally aroused by hypothetical medical scenarios in experiments? An eye tracking study with pupil dilation

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Pages 1308-1319 | Received 22 May 2015, Accepted 23 Nov 2015, Published online: 03 Mar 2016

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