Goals as reference points.

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Cognitive Psychology

• Publication date

  1999-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1006/COGP.1998.0708PMID 10090799
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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