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    Mark P. Blanchard & Steven Abell

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Blanchard, M.P., Abell, S. (2019). Personality and Cancer. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2104-1

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