Seed and Soil: Psychological Affordances in Contexts Help to Explain Where Wise Interventions Succeed or Fail

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 219-226

  Walton, Gregory M ^a   Yeager, David S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

construal; contexts; education; health; intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 85082795145     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721420904453     Document Type: Article

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