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I planned to lock my door but not to put the chain on. I locked the door and proceeded to put the chain on all the while thinking that it wasn’t what I wanted to do.
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Sellen, A.J., Norman, D.A. (1992). The Psychology of Slips. In: Baars, B.J. (eds) Experimental Slips and Human Error. Cognition and Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1164-3_13
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