Songs for the Ego: Theorizing Musical Self-Enhancement.

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Published in Front Psychol on January 20, 2016

Authors

Paul Elvers1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Frankfurt, Germany.

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