Risk and reactance: Applying social-psychological theory to the study of health behavior

Motivational Analyses of Social Behavior: Building on Jack Brehm's Contributions to Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 149-166

  Gibbons, Frederick X ^a   Gerrard, Meg ^a   Pomery, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410610089     Document Type: Chapter

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