Optimistic bias regarding campus violence

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2001, Pages

  Chapin, John ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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