Human Reward Pursuit: From Rudimentary to Higher-Level Functions

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 194-199

  Bijleveld, Erik ^a   Custers, Ruud ^a,b   Aarts, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consciousness; performance; reward pursuit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862018916     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721412438463     Document Type: Article

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