Maintaining Physical Exercise: How Locomotion Mode Moderates the Full Attitude-Intention-Behavior Relation

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 295-303

  Mannetti, Lucia ^a   Pierro, Antonio ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^b   Kruglanski, Arie W ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84864613736     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2012.693442     Document Type: Article

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