Increasing and Decreasing Motor and Cognitive Output: A Model of General Action and Inaction Goals

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 510-523

  Albarracín, Dolores ^a   Handley, Ian M ^b   Noguchi, Kenji ^c   McCulloch, Kathleen C ^a   Li, Hong ^c   Leeper, Joshua ^c   Brown, Rick D ^c   Earl, Allison ^a   Hart, William P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

action goals; behavior; self regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 51449123700     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012833     Document Type: Article

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