Automatic optimism the role of desire in judgments about the likelihood of future events

Social Psychology: New Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-79

  Lench, Heather C ^a   Bench, Shane W ^a   Flores, Sarah A ^a   Ditto, Peter H ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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