Accounting for one's behavior - What really determines its effectiveness? Its type or its content?

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-372

  Hareli, Shlomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 29344474248     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2005.281_1.x     Document Type: Review

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