Moderate Baseline Vagal Tone Predicts Greater Prosociality in Children

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  2017

• Venue

  Developmental Psychology

• Publication date

  2017-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/dev0000238PMID 27819463PMCID PMC5293607
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