Random Yoking: An Alternative to Feedback Procedures for Preventing Superstition in the Human "Learned Helplessness" Paradigm

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 416-434

  Hatfield, Julie ^a   Job, R F Soames ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 0011779423     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/lmot.1998.1010     Document Type: Article

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