Upward Self-Revision: Constructing Possible Selves

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 377-385

  Carroll, Patrick J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84907467759     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2014.934451     Document Type: Article

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