Nonconscious goal pursuit: Acting in an explanatory vacuum

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 668-675

  Oettingen, Gabriele ^a,b   Grant, Heidi ^a   Smith, Pamela K ^a   Skinner, Mary ^a   Gollwitzer, Peter M ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective experience; Automatic goal pursuit; Conscious goal pursuit; Explanatory vacuum; Norm violating behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645674098     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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