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Original Articles

German taxi drivers' experiences and expressions of driving anger: Are the driving anger scale and the driving anger expression inventory valid measures?

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Pages 807-812 | Received 17 Oct 2016, Accepted 03 Apr 2017, Published online: 14 Jul 2017

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