When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness
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article author(s)
Leila Selimbegović
Leila Selimbegović received her Ph.D. from University of Paris Descartes (France) in 2007. She then spent two years as a post-doc at the University of...more
Armand Chatard
Armand Chatard is trained as an experimental social psychologist at Geneva University where he received his PhD in 2005 and worked as a Lecturer for a few...more