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Presidential Address on: Causal Attribution in Sociocultural Context: Toward a Self-presentational Theory of Attribution Processes

Kathleen S. CrittendenUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Pages 1-14 | Published online: 12 Dec 2016

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