Mindreading: Judgments about intentionality and motives in dispositional inference

Psychological Inquiry

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Reeder, Glenn D ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67649876036     PISSN: 1047840X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10478400802615744     Document Type: Article

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