The multifinality constraints effect: how goal multiplicity narrows the means set to a focal end.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2011-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0022980PMID 21381854
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