COGNITIVE BIAS OF OPTIMISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 84 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.84.2.627-636
Abstract
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