Relation of task difficulty to persistence

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 86, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 787-794

  Drucker, Philip M ^a   Litto, Tanya ^b   Drucker, Debra B ^b   Stevens, Ronald ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0009883420     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.3.787     Document Type: Article

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