Sometimes what everybody thinks they know is true.
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Sometimes what everybody thinks they know is true.
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عنوان ژورنال: Law and Human Behavior
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1573-661X,0147-7307
DOI: 10.1023/b:lahu.0000004891.73982.d3