Giving Up on Unattainable Goals: Benefits for Health?

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

• Publication date

  2007-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/0146167206294905PMID 17259585
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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