A strategy for organizing disaster volunteers
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عنوان ژورنال: THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0387-7973,1348-6276
DOI: 10.2130/jjesp.1911