The influence of responsibility and guilt on naive hypothesis-testing

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-320

  Mancini, Francesco ^a,b   Gangemi, Amelia ^a  

^a Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva   (Italy)

^b Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva   (Italy)

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EID: 3042693630     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780442000060     Document Type: Article

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