Stated expectations as functions of probability and desirability of outcomes.

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• Publication year

  1953

• Venue

  Journal of Personality

• Publication date

  1953-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1953.TB01775.XPMID 13053388
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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