Gender differences in children's reactions to success and failure with computers

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 247-267

  Nelson, Lori J ^a   Cooper, Joel ^b  

^a SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

CHILDREN;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0031130378     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0747-5632(97)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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