Motivated believing: Wishful and unwelcome

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Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 348-375

  Scott Kakures, Dion ^a  

^a SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0007332504     PISSN: 00294624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0029-4624.00215     Document Type: Article

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