Increasing level of aspiration by matching construal level and temporal distance

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-111

  Fessel, Florian ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal level; Goals; Level of aspiration; Motivation; Social cognition; Temporal distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051757617     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610381788     Document Type: Article

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