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  1. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    György Baffy

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Julie Schermer

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Baffy, G. (2020). General Adaptation Syndrome. 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_753

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