How need for cognition affects the formation of performance expectancies at school

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 385-395

  Dickhäuser, Oliver ^a   Reinhard, Marc André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Need for cognition; Performance; Performance expectancies; Personality traits and processes; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349502549     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-008-9084-9     Document Type: Article

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