Better, Stronger, Faster: Self-Serving Judgment, Affect Regulation, and the Optimal Vigilance Hypothesis

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  2007

• Venue

  Perspectives on Psychological Science

• Publication date

  2007-06-01

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  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00033.xPMID 18552989PMCID PMC2429993
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