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Actual Minds, Possible Worlds.

Nancy Mergler, +2 more
- 01 Dec 1986 - 
- Vol. 101, Iss: 5, pp 1279
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Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.

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What is agency

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