Equipment malfunctions and attribution of causality

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-46

  Powell, Larry ^a   Kitchens, James T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Communication Studies Department ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE; CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0034136065     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2000.90.1.41     Document Type: Article

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