No pain, no gain: How distress underlies effective self-control (and unites diverse social psychological phenomena)

Motivation and Its Regulation: The Control Within

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 115-132

  Inzlicht, Michael ^a   Legault, Lisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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