Promoting prospective self-control through abstraction

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1049-1054

  Fujita, Kentaro ^a   Roberts, Joseph C ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice bracketing; Construal level theory; Precommitment; Prospective self control; Self control; Self imposed punishment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956618330     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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