On the emergence of deprivation-reducing behaviors: Subliminal priming of behavior representations turns deprivation into motivation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 866-873

  Veltkamp, Martijn ^a   Aarts, Henk ^a   Custers, Ruud ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Deprivation; Motivation; Nonconscious goal pursuit; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549112364     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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