Do educational background and thinking dispositions mediate our pseudo-scientific beliefs?
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عنوان ژورنال: The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2433-7609
DOI: 10.4992/pacjpa.74.0_3am132