Goal pursuit, goal self-concordance, and the accessibility of autobiographical knowledge

Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 901-915

  Moberly, Nicholas J ^a   MacLeod, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33748114760     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210600859517     Document Type: Article

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