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  1. School of Business, Monash UniversityMalaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Nobuhiko Goto

  2. Department of Psychology, Monash University, Malaysia Campus, Bandar Sunway, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Alexandre Schaefer

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Goto, N., Schaefer, A. (2017). Emotional Intensity. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_509-1

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