Unrealistic optimism about specific genetic risks and perceived preventability

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-181

  Welkenhuysen, Myriam ^a,b   Evers Kiebooms, Gerry ^a,b,c   D'Ydewalle, Géry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Center for Human Genetics   (Belgium)

^c Center for Human Genetics   (Belgium)

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