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The plasticity of social emotions

Olga M. KlimeckiSwiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland;Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 466-473 | Received 01 Jun 2015, Accepted 21 Aug 2015, Published online: 15 Sep 2015

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