Reactance Theory - 40 Years Later

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-18

  Miron, Anca M ^a   Brehm, Jack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficulty of restoring freedom; Motivation; Psychological reactance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645658977     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0044-3514.37.1.9     Document Type: Review

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