Behavioral cues to others' motivation and goal pursuits: The perception of effort facilitates goal inference and contagion

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 727-737

  Dik, Giel ^a   Aarts, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animated film technique; Effort; Goal contagion; Goal inferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547156552     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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