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Selective Attunement to Adaptive Problems

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  1. Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA

    Allison M. Wilck & Jeanette Altarriba

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada

    Doug P. VanderLaan

  2. Child, Youth and Family Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Doug P. VanderLaan

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Wilck, A.M., Altarriba, J. (2018). Selective Attunement to Adaptive Problems. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_623-1

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