I want to know what you want: How effort perception facilitates the motivation to infer another's goal

Social Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 737-754

  Dik, Giel ^a   Aarts, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 61449221022     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2008.26.6.737     Document Type: Article

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