Temperature and aggression: ubiquitous effects of heat on occurrence of human violence.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Psychological bulletin

• Publication date

  1989-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1037/0033-2909.106.1.74PMID 2667010
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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