Self-other asymmetries: Three wonders in "hot" social cognition and three questions about them

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 3-21

  Hoorens, Vera ^a   Desrichard, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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