A hot/cool-system analysis of delay of gratification: Dynamics of willpower

Psychological Review

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-19

  Metcalfe, Janet ^a   Mischel, Walter ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE

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ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032616346     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.106.1.3     Document Type: Article

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