The Effects of Past Behavior on Future Goal-Directed Activity

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-283

  Wyer, Robert S ^a   Xu, Alison Jing ^b   Shen, Hao ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Knowledge accessibility; Mind set; Procedural knowledge; Productions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862223677     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394281-4.00014-3     Document Type: Chapter

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