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Implicit attitudes toward violence and their relation to psychopathy, aggression, and socially adaptive behaviors in forensic psychiatric inpatients

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Pages 632-651 | Received 03 Nov 2014, Accepted 27 Mar 2015, Published online: 06 May 2015

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