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Matta, R., Choleris, E., Kavaliers, M. (2020). Amygdala. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_726
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