Possible selves: Personalized representations of goals

Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue , 2015, Pages 211-241

  Markus, Hazel ^a   Ruvolo, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315717517     Document Type: Chapter

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