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Better Never to Have Been

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Simon Reeve

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  1. Oakland Univ Dept of Psycholgy, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Viviana Weekes-Shackelford

  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Lisa L M Welling

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Reeve, S. (2016). Better Never to Have Been. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_459-1

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