Avoidance goals can be beneficial: A look at smoking cessation

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-116

  Worth, Keilah A ^a   Sullivan, Helen W ^a   Hertel, Andrew W ^a   Rothman, Alexander J ^a   Jeffery, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 20744446304     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp2702_2     Document Type: Article

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