Self-other biases in judgments of ambiguous performance and corresponding ability

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 43-64

  Klein, William M P ^a   Buckingham, Justin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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