Face Value and Cheap Talk: How Smiles Can Increase or Decrease the Credibility of Our Words
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Psychology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1474-7049,1474-7049
DOI: 10.1177/1474704918814400