The cost of keeping it hidden: decomposing concealment reveals what makes it depleting.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of experimental psychology. General

• Publication date

  2014-03-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0033468PMID 23796042
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