To be or want to be: Disentangling the role of actual versus ideal self in implicit self-esteem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Remue, Jonathan ^a   Hughes, Sean ^a,b   De Houwer, Jan ^a   De Raedt, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SELF ESTEEM;

EID: 84930982633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108837     Document Type: Article

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