Promotion and prevention choices between stability and change

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1135-1145

  Liberman, Nira ^a   Idson, Lorraine Chen ^b   Camacho, Christopher J ^b   Higgins, E Tory ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGIC; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0033253101     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1135     Document Type: Article

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