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7 - Behavioral Coding in Animals

from Part II - Application Areas of Interaction Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2018

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Joanna M. Setchell
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Elisabeth Brauner ,
Margarete Boos  and
Michaela Kolbe
Elisabeth Brauner
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Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Margarete Boos
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University of Göttingen
Michaela Kolbe
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ETH Zürich
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The Cambridge Handbook of Group Interaction Analysis , pp. 121 - 141
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Print publication year: 2018

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