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4 - Couples Who Slay Together, Stay Together: Benefits, Challenges, and Relational Quality among Romantic Couples Who Game

from Part I - Individual Behaviors and Dyadic Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2018

By
Sarah Evans ,
Elizabeth Craig  and
Nicholas Taylor
Edited by
Kiran Lakkaraju ,
Gita Sukthankar  and
Rolf T. Wigand
Kiran Lakkaraju
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Gita Sukthankar
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
Rolf T. Wigand
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas
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Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
 , pp. 80 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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