Luck, envy, and gratitude: It could have been different

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 313-323

  Teigen, Karl Halvor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Counterfactual thinking; Envy; Gratitude; Luck

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001422374     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00041     Document Type: Article

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