Performance Incentives and Means: How Regulatory Focus Influences Goal Attainment

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 285-293

  Shah, James ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^b   Friedman, Ronald S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEW YORK CITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0031989217     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.2.285     Document Type: Article

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