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Publication information:
Book title: Handbook of Health Psychology.
Contributors: Andrew Baum - Author, Tracey A. Revenson - Author, Jerome E. Singer - Author.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ.
Publication year: 2001.
Page number: 650.
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