Overcoming the planning fallacy through willpower: Effects of implementation intentions on actual and predicted task-completion times

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 873-888

  Koole, Sander ^a   van't Spijker, Mascha ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0034310316     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-0992(200011/12)30:6<873::AID-EJSP22>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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