Situated Optimism: Specific Outcome Expectancies and Self-Regulation

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue C, 1998, Pages 309-379

  Armor, David A ^a   Taylor, Shelley E ^a  

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EID: 77956732897     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60386-X     Document Type: Article

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