Do we know how happy we are? On some limits of affective introspection and recall

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Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 394-428

  Haybron, Daniel M ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2007.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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