Business before pleasure: No strategy for procrastinators?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1045-1057

  König, Cornelius J ^a   Kleinmann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Choice bracketing; Decision making theory; Preference for improvement; Procrastination; Time discounting; Time management

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344614782     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.11.013     Document Type: Article

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