To "do the right thing" or to "just do it": Locomotion and assessment as distinct self-regulatory imperatives

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 793-815

  Kruglanski, Arie W ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^d   Pierro, Antonio ^d   Thompson, Erik P ^d   Atash, M Nadir ^b   Shah, James Y ^c   Spiegel, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Parsa Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL CONTROL; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034330004     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.79.5.793     Document Type: Article

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