Achievement motivation in the social context: Implicit and explicit Hope of Success and Fear of Failure predict memory for and liking of successful and unsuccessful peers

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1040-1052

  Pang, Joyce S ^a   Villacorta, Mark A ^b   Chin, Yammie S ^a   Morrison, Frederick J ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear of failure; Hope of success; Implicit explicit achievement motive distinction; Peer achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350132032     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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