Making a theory useful: Lessons handed down

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-145

  Higgins, E Tory ^a,b  

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

^b Schermerhorn Hall   (United States)

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EID: 3042806979     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0802_7     Document Type: Review

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