Implementation intentions: The mental representations and cognitive procedures of if-then planning

Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 69-86

  Faude Koivisto, Tanya S ^a,b   Wuerz, Daniela ^a,c   Gollwitzer, Peter M ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809846-10     Document Type: Chapter

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