Does self-serving bias cancel the Barnum effect?

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 625-630

  MacDonald, Dany J ^a   Standing, Lionel G ^a  

^a BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0036379605     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2002.30.6.625     Document Type: Article

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