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Salgado, J.F. (2020). Bandwidth-Fidelity Dilemma. 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_1280

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