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Fair-Weather Friends Versus True Friends

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Smith, A., Ohtsubo, Y. (2017). Fair-Weather Friends Versus True Friends. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1571-1

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