The Goal Trumps the Means: Highlighting Goals is More Beneficial than Highlighting Means in Means-End Training

Infancy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 289-302

  Gerson, Sarah A ^a   Woodward, Amanda L ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84873476289     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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