Implementation intentions: A look back at fifteen years of progress

Psicothema

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-42

  Gallo, Inge Schweiger ^a   Gollwitzer, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

DECISION MAKING; GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33846631935     PISSN: 02149915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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