Sufficient Grounds for Optimism?: The Relationship Between Perceived Controllability and Optimistic Bias
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- Published by Guilford Publications in Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 15 (1) , 9-52
- https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.1996.15.1.9
Abstract
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