Self-Regulatory Failure: A Resource-Depletion Approach

Psychological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 249-254

  Vohs, Kathleen D ^a   Heatherton, Todd F ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOW CALORY DIET; PERSONALITY TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TASTE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DIET, REDUCING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASTE;

EID: 0034189681     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00250     Document Type: Article

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