Regulatory Fit and Persuasion: Transfer from "Feeling Right"

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 388-404

  Cesario, Joseph ^a   Grant, Heidi ^a,b   Higgins, E Tory ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 1642353343     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.3.388     Document Type: Article

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