PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intelligence Quotient, Counterfactual Thinking, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Sirena Ibrahim

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