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7 - Emotion Regulation and Primate Sociality

from Part II - Historical and Biological Influences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

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Frans B. M. de Waal
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Gabriele Oettingen  and
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Gabriele Oettingen
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New York University
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Author Note

Frans de Waal, Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Psychology Department, Emory University.

Correspondence concerning this chapter should be addressed to Frans B. M. de Waal, Psychology Department (PAIS Bldg), Suite 270, 36 Eagle Row, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. E-mail: dewaal@emory.edu

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Self-Regulation in Adolescence , pp. 147 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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