The nonconscious road to perceptions of performance: Achievement priming augments outcome expectancies and experienced self-agency

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1200-1208

  Custers, Ruud ^a   Aarts, Henk ^a   Oikawa, Masanori ^b   Elliot, Andrew ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement; Authorship; Causality; Expectancies; Failure; Goals; Priming; Success; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350324011     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.07.013     Document Type: Article

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