Better Off Than We Know

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Psychology Science

• Publication date

  2014-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Political Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/0956797613504965PMID 24317422
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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