The American Journal of Psychology, Volume 1Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn University of Illinois Press, 1888 |
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