Habit formation and multiple means to goal attainment: Repeated retrieval of target means causes inhibited access to competitors

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1367-1379

  Danner, Unna N ^a   Aarts, Henk ^a   De Vries, Nanne K ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Goal means network; Habit formation; Inhibition; Memory retrieval; Multiple means context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABIT; HUMAN; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SATISFACTION;

ADULT; COGNITION; GOALS; HABITS; HUMANS; MEMORY; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION;

EID: 34548230924     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207303948     Document Type: Article

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