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Optimistic Biases About Personal Risks
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- Authors
- Weinstein, N. D.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1989-12-08
- Volume
- 246
- Issue
- 4935
- Pages
- 1232-1233
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2028499407
- Cited by
- 1,032
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 27.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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