Motivating exercise: The interactive effect of general action goals and past behavior on physical activity

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-370

  Hepler, Justin ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Albarracin, Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Activity level; Exercise; Goals; Motivation; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864748533     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9267-0     Document Type: Article

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