Anticipated Success at Unconscious Goal Pursuit: Consequences for Mood, Self-Esteem, and the Evaluation of a Goal-Relevant Task

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-338

  Riketta, Michael ^a,b   Dauenheimer, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automotives; Mood; Priming; Self esteem; Unconscious processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345448116     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026283606173     Document Type: Review

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