Boosting trainees’ expectations of success through knowledge of performance norms

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 363-364

  Hilling, Karen T ^a   Tattersall, Andrew J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

PERFORMANCE NORMS;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 0031271295     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492997119761     Document Type: Article

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