The preference for potential.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2012-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/A0029227PMID 22775472
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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