Motivating goal-directed behavior through introspective self-talk: The role of the interrogative form of simple future tense

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-504

  Senay, Ibrahim ^a   Albarracín, Dolores ^a   Noguchi, Kenji ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Intention; Linguistic categories; Self regulation; Self talk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

GOALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

EID: 77951235472     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610364751     Document Type: Article

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