What remains on your mind after you are done?: Flexible regulation of knowledge accessibility

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 882-890

  Hedberg, Per H ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility decay; Forgetting; Goal completion; Knowledge accessibility; Motivational orientation; Procedural motive

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959515808     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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