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4 - Developing a Sense of Self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2018

By
Bruce Hood
Edited by
Torsten Krude  and
Sara T. Baker
Torsten Krude
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Sara T. Baker
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Mechanisms of Change
 , pp. 53 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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