How People Explain Behavior: A New Theoretical Framework

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Review

• Publication date

  1999-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1207/s15327957pspr0301_2PMID 15647146
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