Are we over- or under-projecting and how much? Decisive issues of methodological validity and item type

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-68

  Jones, Paul E ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 1142278687     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.187     Document Type: Article

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