Dodging monsters and dancing with dreams: Success and failure at different levels of approach and avoidance

Emotion Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 254-258

  Scholer, Abigail A ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

approach; avoidance; regulatory focus; self regulatory hierarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879448589     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073913477506     Document Type: Article

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