Positive Couple Interactions and Daily Cortisol: On the Stress-Protecting Role of Intimacy

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Psychosomatic Medicine

• Publication date

  2008-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318185c4fcPMID 18842747
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