Goals and responses to failure: Knowing when to hold them and when to fold them

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-140

  Lench, Heather C ^a   Levine, Linda J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach; Avoidance; Emotion; Failure; Goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949123816     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-008-9085-1     Document Type: Article

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