Things Will Get Better: The Anxiety-Buffering Qualities of Progressive Hope

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

• Publication date

  2009-02-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/0146167208331252PMID 19234297
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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