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Burns, R.J., Rothman, A.J. (2016). Behavior Change. In: Gellman, M., Turner, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_300-2

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