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Christopher T. Burris, C. Daniel Batson, Martin Altstaedten, Kevin Stephens, "What a Friend...": Loneliness as a Motivator of Intrinsic Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 326-334
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