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Compensatory behaviors and the “rest principle”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

John David Sinclair
John David Sinclair
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Research Laboratories of the State Alcohol Monopoly (Alko), SF-00101 Helsinki 10, Finland
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 466
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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