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How to Live a Life with More Positive Than Negative Feelings? A Review of Menelaos Apostolou, Feeling Good: An Evolutionary Perspective on Life Choices

Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2016, 227 pp., US$28.95, ISBN 978–1412863339

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FP receives funding from FCT Portugal through grant PD/BD/114366/2016, and JA receives funding from FCT Portugal through grants PTDC/MHC-PCN/4589/2012 and IF/01298/2014.

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Pazhoohi, F., Arantes, J. How to Live a Life with More Positive Than Negative Feelings? A Review of Menelaos Apostolou, Feeling Good: An Evolutionary Perspective on Life Choices . Evolutionary Psychological Science 3, 86–88 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-016-0069-1

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