Not so above average after all: When people believe they are worse than average and its implications for theories of bias in social comparison
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- 31 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
- Vol. 102 (1), 42-58
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.09.005
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