Social Illusions and Self-Deception: The evolution of biases in person perception

Evolutionary Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 21-47

  Krebs, Dennis L ^a   Denton, Kathy ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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