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Baron, Jonathan, and John C. Hershey — Outcome Bias in Decision

Baron, Jonathan, and John C. Hershey. "Outcome Bias in Decision Evaluation." *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology* 54, no. 4 (1988): 569–579.

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