The social implications of planning: How public predictions bias future plans

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 221-227

  Pezzo, Stephanie P ^a   Pezzo, Mark V ^b   Stone, Eric R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Optimism; Planning fallacy; Procrastination; Self presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044455835     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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