Cognitive Strategies for Coping with Uncertain Outcomes.

Pyszczynski, Tom

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Publication Date: 1982-Sep

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Cognitive Strategies for Coping with Uncertain Outcomes.

Pyszczynski, Tom

Journal of Research in Personality, v16 n3 p386-99 Sep 1982

Proposed that, when faced with highly desirable but uncertain outcomes, people may employ cognitive strategies in an attempt to influence their future affective responses to the outcomes in question. Demonstrated the use of two such strategies. (Author)

Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Coping, Expectation, Higher Education, Negative Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Self Esteem

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