Wishful Thinking and Procrastination

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 283-296

  Sigall, Harold ^a   Kruglanski, Arie ^a   Fyock, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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