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Rottenberg, J., Vaughan, C. (2008). Emotion Expression in Depression: Emerging Evidence for Emotion Context-Insensitivity. In: Vingerhoets, A.J., Nyklíček, I., Denollet, J. (eds) Emotion Regulation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29986-0_8

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