Self-Control Depletion Leads to Increased Risk Taking

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-181

  Freeman, Nicholas ^a   Muraven, Mark ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; judgment and decision making; risk taking; self; self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955050553     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550609360421     Document Type: Article

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