Long ago it was meant to be: The interplay between time, construal, and fate beliefs

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1050-1058

  Burrus, Jeremy ^a   Roese, Neal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal; Counter factual; Fate; Luck; Temporal focus; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; TIME;

ADULT; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; TIME;

EID: 33745948418     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206288282     Document Type: Article

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