Not doing bad things is not equivalent to doing the right thing: Distinguishing between inhibitory and initiatory self-control

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1006-1011

  De Ridder, Denise T D ^a   De Boer, Benjamin J ^b   Lugtig, Peter ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b   van Hooft, Edwin A J ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Goal directed behavior; Inhibition; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952616343     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.01.015     Document Type: Article

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