Effects of an attribution retraining with female students gifted in physics

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-243

  Ziegler, Albert ^a,b   Heller, Kurt A ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0034350508     PISSN: 01623532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4219/jeg-2000-585     Document Type: Article

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