Sex, gullibility, and the Barnum effect

Psychological Reports

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 571-576

  Piper Terry, Marcella L ^b   Downey, Jerrold L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0010424894     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.2.571     Document Type: Article

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