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3 WD meets GTVH: Breaking the ground for interdisciplinary humor research

A Placebo-Controlled Online Study on Potential Mediators of a Pleasure-Based Positive Psychology Intervention: The Role of Emotional and Cognitive Components

A Twin Study on Humor Appreciation

article by Marco Weber et al published September 2014 in Journal of Individual Differences

A comparison of computerized and conventional administration of the German versions of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Carroll Rating Scale for Depression

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A lifetime of fear of being laughed at: an aged perspective

scientific article published on 17 December 2009

A meta-analysis of gender differences in character strengths and age, nation, and measure as moderators

A multi-method approach to studying the relationship between character strengths and vocational interests in adolescents

A personality-based model of humor development during adulthood

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Adaptation and Initial Validation of the German Version of the Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (German SLSS)

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Addressing the role of personality, ability, and positive and negative affect in positive psychology interventions: Findings from a randomized intervention based on the authentic happiness theory and extensions

scholarly article by René T. Proyer et al published 18 February 2016 in The Journal of Positive Psychology

An Initial Study on How Families Deal with Ridicule and Being Laughed at: Parenting Styles and Parent–Child Relations with Respect to Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, and Katagelasticism

article by René T. Proyer et al published 7 July 2012 in Journal of Adult Development

An examination of the convergence between the conceptualization and the measurement of humor styles: A study of the construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire

article by Sonja Heintz & Willibald Ruch published 1 January 2015 in Humor (journal)

Analyzing multitrait-mulitmethod data with multilevel confirmatory factor analysis: An application to the validation of the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory

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Are musicians particularly sensitive to beauty and goodness?

article by Angelika Güsewell & Willibald Ruch published February 2014 in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Are only Emotional Strengths Emotional? Character Strengths and Disposition to Positive Emotions

scientific article published on 14 May 2012

Are there multiple channels through which we connect with beauty and excellence?

article by Angelika Güsewell & Willibald Ruch published November 2012 in The Journal of Positive Psychology

Assessing Dispositions Toward Ridicule and Laughter in the Workplace: Adapting and Validating the PhoPhiKat-9 Questionnaire

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Assessing Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, and Katagelasticism in Children: An Initial Study on How Six to Nine-Year-Olds Deal with Laughter and Ridicule and How This Relates to Bullying and Victimization

Assessing the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): First evaluation of the Danish GELOPH

article by Martin Führ et al published January 2009 in Nordic Psychology

Assessing the “Good Life” in a Military Context: How Does Life and Work-Satisfaction Relate to Orientations to Happiness and Career-Success Among Swiss Professional Officers?

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Associations between satisfaction with life, burnout-related emotional and physical exhaustion, and sleep complaints

scientific article published in August 2010

Attitudes to sex, sexual behaviour and enjoyment of humour

Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries

article by René T. Proyer et al published January 2009 in Humor (journal)

Brief Report: Character Strengths in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Impairment

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Broadening Humor: Comic Styles Differentially Tap into Temperament, Character, and Ability

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Can people really "laugh at themselves?"--experimental and correlational evidence

scientific article published in June 2011

Character Strengths Are Related to Students' Achievement, Flow Experiences, and Enjoyment in Teacher-Centered Learning, Individual, and Group Work Beyond Cognitive Ability

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Character Strengths Rating Form

Character Strengths in Children and Adolescents

Character Strengths: Person-Environment Fit and Relationships With Job and Life Satisfaction

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Character and dealing with laughter: the relation of self- and peer-reported strengths of character with gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism

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Character strengths and well-being across the life span: data from a representative sample of German-speaking adults living in Switzerland

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Character strengths predict resilience over and above positive affect, self-efficacy, optimism, social support, self-esteem, and life satisfaction

Co-occurrence Patterns of Character Strengths and Measured Core Virtues in German-Speaking Adults

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Conservatism as a predictor of responses to humour-I

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Conservatism as a predictor of responses to humour—II. The location of sense of humour in a comprehensive attitude space

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Conservatism as a predictor of responses to humour—III. The prediction of appreciation of incongruity-resolution based humour by content saturated attitude scales in five samples

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Cross-national comparison of humor categories: France and Germany

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Danish GELOPH

Dealing with laughter and ridicule in adolescence: relations with bullying and emotional responses

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Development and Linguistic Cue Analysis of the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory-Short Form

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Does the Excellent Enactment of Highest Strengths Reveal Virtues?

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Duchenne display responses towards sixteen enjoyable emotions: Individual differences between no and fear of being laughed at

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Editorial: Humor and Laughter, Playfulness and Cheerfulness: Upsides and Downsides to a Life of Lightness

Effect of the Demographic Variables and Psychometric Properties of the Personal Well-Being Index for School Children in India

Enhanced cognitive performance and cheerful mood by standardized extracts of Piper methysticum (Kava-kava).

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Evaluation of a Picture-Based Test for the Assessment of Gelotophobia

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire.

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Extending the study of gelotophobia: On gelotophiles and katagelasticists

Extraversion, Alcohol, and Enjoyment

Extraversion, alcohol, and enjoyment

Fear of Being Laughed at in Children and Adolescents: Exploring the Importance of Overweight, Underweight, and Teasing

article by Carl-Walter Kohlmann et al published 2018 in Frontiers in Psychology

Fearing humor? Gelotophobia: The fear of being laughed at Introduction and overview

article by Willibald Ruch published January 2009 in Humor (journal)

Fusing character strengths and mindfulness interventions: Benefits for job satisfaction and performance

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

GELOPH

Gelotophobia in India: The Assessment of the Fear of being Laughed at with the Kannada Version of the GELOPH

article by Shanmukh Vasant Kamble et al published 29 April 2014 in Psychological Studies

Gelotophobia in Israel: on the assessment of the fear of being laughed at.

scientific article published in January 2011

Gelotophobia, emotion-related skills and responses to the affective states of others

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Gelotophobia: Life satisfaction and happiness across cultures

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Good character at school: positive classroom behavior mediates the link between character strengths and school achievement

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Heiterkeit und Humor im Alter

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

How do gelotophobes interpret laughter in ambiguous situations? An experimental validation of the concept

How do positive psychology interventions work? A short-term placebo-controlled humor-based study on the role of the time focus

How does psychopathy relate to humor and laughter? Dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at, the sense of humor, and psychopathic personality traits

scientific article published on 3 May 2012

How virtuous are gelotophobes? Self- and peer-reported character strengths among those who fear being laughed at

article by René T. Proyer & Willibald Ruch published January 2009 in Humor (journal)

How virtuous is humor? Evidence from everyday behavior

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How virtuous is humor? What we can learn from current instruments

Humor Assessment and Interventions in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review.

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Humor and smiling: cortical regions selective for cognitive, affective, and volitional components.

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Humor appreciation and sensation seeking: Invariance of findings across culture and assessment instrument?

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Humor as a character strength among the elderly: empirical findings on age-related changes and its contribution to satisfaction with life

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Humor as a character strength among the elderly: theoretical considerations.

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Humor-based online positive psychology interventions: A randomized placebo-controlled long-term trial

Humorous cognitive reappraisal: More benign humour and less "dark" humour is affiliated with more adaptive cognitive reappraisal strategies

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Humour appreciation and needs: Evidence from questionnaire, self-, and peer-rating data

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Impact of laughter on air trapping in severe chronic obstructive lung disease.

scientific article published on January 2008

Individual Differences in Gelotophobia Predict Responses to Joy and Contempt

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Individual differences in gelotophobia and responses to laughter-eliciting emotions

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Intelligence and gelotophobia: The relations of self-estimated and Psychometrically measured intelligence to the fear of being laughed at

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Intolerance of ambiguity as a factor in the appreciation of humour

Introduction: Current issues in psychological humor research

Investigating the humor of gelotophobes: Does feeling ridiculous equal being humorless?

Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland

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Laughing away the pain: A narrative review of humour, sense of humour and pain

scientific article published on 30 September 2018

Laughter Research: A Review of the ILHAIRE Project

Letter on Shahidi et al. (2011): "Laughter Yoga versus group exercise program in elderly depressed women: a randomized controlled trial" I -- first things first! Caveats in research on "laughter yoga".

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Mapping strengths into virtues: the relation of the 24 VIA-strengths to six ubiquitous virtues.

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Multicultural Validation of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire Shortened Form (ZKA-PQ/SF) Across 18 Countries

scientific article published on 17 March 2019

National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures.

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Neural correlates of laughter and humour

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Nine beautiful things: A self-administered online positive psychology intervention on the beauty in nature, arts, and behaviors increases happiness and ameliorates depressive symptoms

scholarly article by René T. Proyer et al published May 2016 in Personality and Individual Differences

Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire--German Version

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Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction in twenty-seven nations

scholarly article by Nansook Park et al published July 2009 in The Journal of Positive Psychology

Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions

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Patterns and universals of mate poaching across 53 nations: the effects of sex, culture, and personality on romantically attracting another person's partner

scientific article published in April 2004

Pavlov's types of nervous system, Eysenck's typology and the Hippocrates-Galen temperaments: An empirical examination of the asserted correspondence of three temperament typologies

Positive Feelings at School: On the Relationships Between Students’ Character Strengths, School-Related Affect, and School Functioning

article by Marco Weber et al published 20 November 2014 in Journal of Happiness Studies

Positive Interventionen: Stärkenorientierte Ansätze

Positive Psychology Interventions Addressing Pleasure, Engagement, Meaning, Positive Relationships, and Accomplishment Increase Well-Being and Ameliorate Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Online Study

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Positive psychology interventions in people aged 50-79 years: long-term effects of placebo-controlled online interventions on well-being and depression

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Psychometric Comparisons of Benevolent and Corrective Humor across 22 Countries: The Virtue Gap in Humor Goes International

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Relationship between humor and proposed punishment for crimes: Beware of humorous people

Relationships among higher-order strengths factors, subjective well-being, and general self-efficacy – The case of Israeli adolescents

scholarly article by Marco Weber et al published July 2013 in Personality and Individual Differences

Reply to Martin (2015): Why our conclusions hold

article published in 2016

Satisfaction with life and character strengths of non-religious and religious people: it's practicing one's religion that makes the difference

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Scrutinizing the Criteria for Character Strengths: Laypersons Assert That Every Strength Is Positively Morally Valued, Even in the Absence of Tangible Outcomes

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Self- and peer-rated character strengths: How do they relate to satisfaction with life and orientations to happiness?

scholarly article by Claudia Buschor et al published March 2013 in The Journal of Positive Psychology

Self-conscious emotions and ridicule: Shameful gelotophobes and guilt free katagelasticists

Sensation seeking and the enjoyment of structure and content of humour: Stability of findings across four samples

Sensation seeking and the situational humour response questionnaire (SHRQ): its relationship in American and German samples

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Sensation seeking, social attitudes and humor appreciation in Italy

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Sense of humor among the elderly: findings using the German version of the SHS.

scientific article published on 11 December 2009

Seven decades after Hans Asperger's observations: A comprehensive study of humor in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

scholarly article by Andrea C. Samson et al published 12 January 2013 in Humor (journal)

Short Form of the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire for the German-Speaking Countries

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Special Issue: Character Strengths, Well-Being, and Health in Educational and Vocational Settings

scientific article published on 05 January 2019

Strength-Based Positive Interventions: Further Evidence for Their Potential in Enhancing Well-Being and Alleviating Depression

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Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction

scholarly article by Christopher Peterson et al published July 2007 in The Journal of Positive Psychology

Strengths-based positive psychology interventions: a randomized placebo-controlled online trial on long-term effects for a signature strengths- vs. a lesser strengths-intervention

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

Studying Irony Detection Beyond Ironic Criticism: Let's Include Ironic Praise

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Stärkenorientierte Ansätze

Team roles: Their relationships to character strengths and job satisfaction

Teasing, ridiculing and the relation to the fear of being laughed at in individuals with Asperger's syndrome

scientific article published in April 2011

Temperament, Eysenck’s PEN system, and humor-related traits

Temperamental basis of sense of humor: The Spanish long form of the trait version of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory

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Temperamental basis of sense of humor: validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China

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Testing Strengths-Based Interventions: A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of a Program Targeting Curiosity, Gratitude, Hope, Humor, and Zest for Enhancing Life Satisfaction

The Application of Signature Character Strengths and Positive Experiences at Work

article published in 2012

The Effect of Helping Behavior and Physical Activity on Mood States and Depressive Symptoms of Elderly People

article published in 2010

The European Football Championship as a Positive Festivity: Changes in Strengths of Character Before, During, and After the Euro 2008 in Switzerland

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The Fear of Being Laughed at in Switzerland

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The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor

scientific article published on 19 August 2016

The Mutual Support Model of Mindfulness and Character Strengths

scientific article published on 16 February 2019

The Relation of Character Strengths to Past, Present, and Future Life Satisfaction among German-Speaking Women

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The Relationship Between Orientations to Happiness and Job Satisfaction One Year Later in a Representative Sample of Employees in Switzerland

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The Relationships of Team Role- and Character Strengths-Balance With Individual and Team-Level Satisfaction and Performance

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

The Role of Character Strengths for Task Performance, Job Dedication, Interpersonal Facilitation, and Organizational Support

The Role of a Good Character in 12-Year-Old School Children: Do Character Strengths Matter in the Classroom?

article by Marco Weber & Willibald Ruch published 19 November 2011 in Child Indicators Research

The Situational Humour Response Questionnaire (SHRQ) as a test of “sense of humour”: a validity study in the field of humour appreciation

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The State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory State Version–Short Form (STCI-S18): An Examination of Language Use and Psychometric Properties

scientific article published in 2021

The Strelau Temperament Inventory—Revised (STI-R): Validity studies

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The Subjective Assessment of Accomplishment and Positive Relationships: Initial Validation and Correlative and Experimental Evidence for Their Association with Well-Being

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The Use of Bright and Dark Types of Humour is Rooted in the Brain

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

The assessment of the fear of being laughed at in Poland: Translation and first evaluation of the Polish GELOPH

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The association between class clown dimensions, school experiences and accomplishment

The attractive female body weight and female body dissatisfaction in 26 countries across 10 world regions: results of the international body project I.

scientific article published in March 2010

The character strengths of class clowns.

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The emotions of gelotophobes: Shameful, fearful, and joyless?

The fear of being laughed at among psychiatric patients

article by Giovannantonio Forabosco et al published January 2009 in Humor (journal)

The fear of being laughed at as additional diagnostic criterion in social anxiety disorder and avoidant personality disorder?

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

The fear of being laughed at: Individual and group differences in Gelotophobia

article by Willibald Ruch & René T. Proyer published 1 January 2008 in Humor (journal)

The good character at work: an initial study on the contribution of character strengths in identifying healthy and unhealthy work-related behavior and experience patterns

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The influence of a virtual companion on amusement when watching funny films

The language of character strengths: Predicting morally valued traits on social media

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

The location of sense of humor within comprehensive personality spaces: An exploratory study

The location of three dispositions towards ridicule in the five-factor personality model in the population of Slovak adults

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The nature of humor appreciation: toward an integration of perception of stimulus properties and affective experience

The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

The role of character strengths in adolescent romantic relationships: an initial study on partner selection and mates' life satisfaction

scientific article published on 30 June 2012

The role of character traits in economic games

The state-of-the art in gelotophobia research: A review and some theoretical extensions

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The subjective assessment of the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): French adaptation of the GELOPH questionnaire

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The virtuousness of adult playfulness: the relation of playfulness with strengths of character

article published in 2011

Toward a better understanding of what makes positive psychology interventions work: predicting happiness and depression from the person × intervention fit in a follow-up after 3.5 years

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Toward an empirical verification of the General Theory of Verbal Humor

Towards Automated Full Body Detection of Laughter Driven by Human Expert Annotation

Trait cheerfulness modulates BOLD response in lateral cortical but not limbic brain areas--a pilot fMRI study.

scientific article published on 13 September 2008

Trait cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood outperform personality traits of the five-factor model in explaining variance in humor behaviors and well-being among adolescents

scientific article published in 2020

Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands

scientific article published in July 2003

Validation of the German version of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale and its relation to orientations to happiness and work stress

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Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS)

Values in Action Inventory of Strengths—German Version and Peer Rating Form

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Ways to Happiness in German-Speaking Countries

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Were they really laughed at? That much? Gelotophobes and their history of perceived derisibility

What good are character strengths beyond subjective well-being? The contribution of the good character on self-reported health-oriented behavior, physical fitness, and the subjective health status

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When the job is a calling: The role of applying one's signature strengths at work

Who Benefits From Humor-Based Positive Psychology Interventions? The Moderating Effects of Personality Traits and Sense of Humor.

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Who fears being laughed at? The location of gelotophobia in the Eysenckian PEN-model of personality

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Who is Gelotophobic? Assessment Criteria for the Fear of Being Laughed at

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Will the Real Relationship Between Facial Expression and Affective Experience Please Stand Up?: The Case of Exhilaration

Will the real relationship between facial expression and affective experience please stand up: The case of exhilaration

Your Strengths are Calling: Preliminary Results of a Web-Based Strengths Intervention to Increase Calling

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