Goal specificity effects on hypothesis testing in problem solving

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 241-261

  Burns, Bruce D ^a   Vollmeyer, Regina ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

GOALS; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0039490363     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980143000262     Document Type: Article

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