Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Emotion

• Publication date

  2009-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0014904PMID 19348541
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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