Whatever Is Willed Will Be: A Temporal Asymmetry in Attributions to Will.
Why do people neglect or underweight their past failures when thinking about their prospects of future success? One reason may be that people think of the past and future as guided by different causal forces. In seven studies, the authors demonstrate that people hold asymmetric beliefs about the imp...
| Publicado en: | Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin Vol. 38; no. 10; pp. 1235 - 1247 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2012
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