Leading Us Not Unto Temptation: Momentary Allurements Elicit Overriding Goal Activation

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 296-309

  Fishbach, Ayelet ^a   Friedman, Ronald S ^b   Kruglanski, Arie W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PILOT STUDY; REACTION TIME;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84994123079     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.2.296     Document Type: Article

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