Craving activity and losing objectivity: Effects of general action concepts on approach to decision-consistent information

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-62

  Hart, William ^a   Albarracin, Dolores ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

action inaction; attitude; goal; selective exposure; social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755228782     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611408620     Document Type: Review

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