Self-assessment, self-enhancement, and task preference
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Vol. 16 (2) , 116-129
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1031(80)90003-7
Abstract
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