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The impact of the message content of rewards and punishments on the attribution of freedom1
Robert Bringle, Susan Lehtinen, Ivan D. Steiner,
Ivan D. Steiner
University of Massachusetts
Requests for reprints should be sent to Ivan D Steiner, Department of Psychology, University of Mass, Amherst, Mass 01002
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Ivan D. Steiner
University of Massachusetts
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This research was supported by grants from the United States Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, No MH 19417 and MH 20169 Experiment II was conducted as M A thesis research by Bringle under the direction of Stemer

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