Making sense of failure: A motivated model of hindsight bias

Social Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-164

  Pezzo, Mark V ^a   Pezzo, Stephanie P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 35549008800     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2007.25.1.147     Document Type: Article

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