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    Bradley R. DeWees & Jennifer S. Lerner

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DeWees, B.R., Lerner, J.S. (2018). Uncertainty Avoidance. 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_806-1

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