Self and other in the explanation of behavior: 30 years later

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 113-130

  Knobe, Joshua ^a   Malle, Bertram F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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