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This article is partially based on the first author's doctoral dissertation supervised by the second author and submitted to the Psychology Department, University of Waterloo, 1979. The authors wish to thank Ed Ware for his critical comments as well as Debbie Sherk and Carl von Baeyer for their help in running subjects. This research was supported by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 410-78-0297 to the second author.
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Miller, R.S., Lefcourt, H.M. Social intimacy: An important moderator of stressful life events. Am J Commun Psychol 11, 127–139 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00894362
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