Uncovering an existential barrier to breast self-exam behavior
- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Vol. 44 (2) , 260-274
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2007.05.002
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