Judged frequency of lethal events

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• Publication year

  1978

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning & Memory

• Publication date

  1978-11-01

• Fields of study

  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/0278-7393.4.6.551
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