How prevalent is wishful thinking? Misattribution of arousal causes optimism and pessimism in subjective probabilities.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of experimental psychology. General

• Publication date

  2010-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0018144PMID 20121311
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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