Personal goals and time travel: How are future places visited, and is it worth it?

Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time: Theory, Research, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 143-164

  Sheldon, Kennon ^a   Vansteenkiste, Maarten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410613516     Document Type: Chapter

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