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Pamela Orpinas

Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

The Myth of “Mean Girls”

Sep 10, 2015 By: Pamela Orpinas, Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and Alana Vivolo-Kantor, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Caroline McNicholas, Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and Lusine Nahapetyan, Kinesiology and Health Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana

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