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Editorial Board:
Allesch, Christian (University of Salzburg, Austria); Araujo, Saulo de Freitas (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Baker, David B. (University of Akron, USA); Brock, Adrian C. (Bolton, United Kingdom); Carroy, Jacqueline (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France); Jovanovic, Gordana (University of Belgrade, Serbia); Lafuente, Enrique (National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain); León, Ramón (Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Perú); Mülberger, Annette (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Nicolas, Serge (Université Paris Descartes, France); Pietikäinen, Petteri (University of Helsinki, Finland); Pléh, Csaba (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary); Robinson, David K. (Truman State University, USA); Schmidgen, Henning (University of Regensburg, Germany); Stock, Armin (University of Würzburg, Germany); Teigen, Karl Halvor (University of Oslo, Norway); van Belzen, Jacob (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Wozniak, Robert H. (Bryn Mawr College, USA); Zavershneva, Ekaterina (Moscow, Russia); Zeidler, Włodek (University of Finance and Management, Warsaw, Poland)
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Prof. Mauro Antonelli
Dipartimento di Psicologia
Università di Milano - Bicocca
20126 Milano, Italy
E-mail: mauro.antonelli@unimib.it
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