Being active and impulsive: The role of goals for action and inaction in self-control

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 416-424

  Hepler, Justin ^a   Albarracin, Dolores ^a   McCulloch, Kathleen C ^b   Noguchi, Kenji ^c  

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

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; General goals; Inaction; Inhibition; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869081188     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9263-4     Document Type: Article

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