Illusion of control: A meta-analytic review

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 493-510

  Presson, Paul K ^a   Benassi, Victor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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