Approach and avoidance as action effects

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

• Publication date

  2008-08-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/17470210802027987PMID 19086189
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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