The new adventures of regulatory focus: Self-uncertainty and the quest for a diagnostic self-evaluation

Handbook of the Uncertain Self

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 249-265

  Leonardelli, Geoffrey J ^a   Lakin, Jessica L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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