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  1. Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

    David Weiss

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  1. Population Division, UN Dept of Economic Social Affairs Population Division, New York, NY, USA

    Danan Gu

  2. Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Matthew E. Dupre

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  1. Institute of Psychogerontology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

    Susanne Wurm

  2. Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

    Anna E. Kornadt

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Weiss, D. (2019). Age Group Dissociation. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_93-1

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