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Schiller, M.M., Kazanas, S.A. (2019). Selective Attending. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2793-1

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