Personal fable: Optimistic bias in cigarette smokers

International Journal of High Risk Behaviors and Addiction

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Masiero, Marianna ^a,b   Lucchiari, Claudio ^a,b   Pravettoni, Gabriella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bias; Decision making; Nicotine dependence; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943609417     PISSN: 22518711     EISSN: 2251872X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/ijhrba.20939     Document Type: Article

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