When thinking about goals undermines goal pursuit

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-107

  Fishbach, Ayelet ^a   Choi, Jinhee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Extrinsic intrinsic; Goals; Instrumentality; Motivation; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862793040     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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