Predicting behavior from actions in the past: Repeated decision making or a matter of habit?

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1355-1374

  Aarts, Henk ^a   Verplanken, Bas ^b   Van Knippenberg, Ad ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0032346280     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01681.x     Document Type: Article

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