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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 48, 1995 - Issue 2
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Feeling the Heat: Body Temperature and the Rate of Subjective Time, Revisited

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Pages 129-141 | Received 10 Jul 1994, Published online: 29 May 2007

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