Compensating, Resisting, and Breaking: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Reactions to Self-Esteem Threat

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Review

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/1088868310372950PMID 20631397
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