The conflict mindset: How internal conflicts affect self-regulation

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Kleiman, Tali ^a   Enisman, Maya ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING;

EID: 85046682503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12387     Document Type: Article

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