Weakness of the will: Is a quick fix possible?

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 305-322

  Gollwitzer, Peter M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action control; Goal striving; If then plans; Implementation intentions; Strategic automaticity; Willpower

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901989020     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9416-3     Document Type: Article

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