Future Self-Continuity Is Associated With Improved Health and Increases Exercise Behavior

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Journal of experimental psychology. Applied

• Publication date

  2018-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/xap0000153PMID 29595304
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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