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  1. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    Lauren Law, Dawn Wilson & Hannah G. Lawman

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Law, L., Wilson, D., Lawman, H.G. (2019). Self-Determination Theory. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_1620-2

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