Do Demanding Conditions Help or Hurt Self-Regulation?

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 328-346

  Koole, Sander L ^a   Jostmann, Nils B ^b   Baumann, Nicola ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

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EID: 84859330872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00425.x     Document Type: Review

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