Optimistic Biases About Personal Risks
- 8 December 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 246 (4935), 1232-1233
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2686031
Abstract
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