Promotion and prevention focus on alternative hypotheses: Implications for attributional functions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 5-18

  Liberman, Nira ^a   Molden, Daniel C ^b   Idson, Lorraine Chen ^b   Higgins, E Tory ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LOGIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 85047685555     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.80.1.5     Document Type: Article

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