Need for Cognition, Task Difficulty, and the Formation of Performance Expectancies

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1062-1076

  Reinhard, Marc André ^a   Dickhäuser, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

need for cognition; performance; performance expectancies; personality traits and processes

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 65649130048     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014927     Document Type: Article

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