Cognitive Processes in Counterfactual Thinking About What Might have been

Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory

Volumn 37, Issue C, 1997, Pages 105-154

  Byrne, Ruth M J ^a  

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EID: 77956707083     PISSN: 00797421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-7421(08)60501-0     Document Type: Chapter

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