Potential: The valuation of imagined future achievement

Cognition

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 134-139

  Andrew Poehlman, T ^a   Newman, George E ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Art; Heuristics; Lay theories; Potential; Utility; Valuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHARACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN POTENTIAL; INFERIOR PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BELIEF; ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; IMAGINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887376338     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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