Luck: The art of a near miss

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 156-171

  Teigen, Karl Halvor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chance; Counterfactual thinking; Luck

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000723677     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1996.tb00648.x     Document Type: Article

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