Goal Setting and Goal Striving

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 329-347

  Oettingen, Gabriele ^a   Gollwitzer, Peter M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Behavioral goals; Goal implementation; Goal theories; Scientific achievements; Structural features

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954576751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998519.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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