Do Control Beliefs Help People Approach or Avoid Negative Stimuli? Context-Dependent Effects of Control Beliefs
Control beliefs are widely acknowledged to play a critical role in self-regulation and well-being, but their impact on decisions to approach or avoid emotionally valenced stimuli is not clear. Two contradictory predictions for this impact can be derived from extant theorizing on the functions of con...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2014
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1198 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2335&context=theses |