Determinants of task performance and invested effort: A need for closure by relative cognitive capacity interaction analysis

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 779-792

  Roets, Arne ^a,b   Van Hiel, Alain ^a,b   Cornelis, Ilse ^a   Soetens, Barbara ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Department of Developmental Personality and Social Psychology ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decision making; Integrative framework; Motivation; Need for closure; Relative cognitive capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; NOISE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADULT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; NOISE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43449094664     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208315554     Document Type: Article

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