On acting against one's best judgement: A social constructionist interpretation for the Akrasia problem

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-192

  Romaioli, Diego ^a   Faccio, Elena ^a   Salvini, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Akrasia; Identity processes; Judgement; Postmodern psychology; Social constructionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649094680     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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