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  1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Arts & Sciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA

    Keith Sanford

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Institute of Psychology, University of Lodz, Smugowa 10/12, 91-433, Lodz, Poland

    Monika Wróbel

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Sanford, K. (2016). Soft Emotions. 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_553-1

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