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. 2020 Jul:289:113061.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113061. Epub 2020 May 6.

Psychological underpinning of panic buying during pandemic (COVID-19)

S M Yasir Arafat  1 , Sujita Kumar Kar  2 , Marthoenis Marthoenis  3 , Pawan Sharma  4 , Ehsanul Hoque Apu  5 , Russell Kabir  6
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Psychological underpinning of panic buying during pandemic (COVID-19)

S M Yasir Arafat et al. Psychiatry Res. 2020 Jul.
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