Attitudinal approaches to health behavior: Integrating expectancy-value and automaticity accounts

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 572-584

  Lowe, Rob ^a   Norman, Paul ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84881293451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12046     Document Type: Article

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