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Desire Helps Attain Goals

Sean | February 3, 2010

Have you ever wanted something so much it seemed inevitable that you would get it? A recent study conducted by Emily Balcetis and David Dunning and published in a paper called Wishful Seeing analyzed people’s perception in relation to their desires.  When estimating distance to something they really want, people general believed the object was [...]

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