Refereeing in sports is supposed to be a craft, not an art: Response to Mascarenhas, Collins, and Mortimer (2002)

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 334-337

  Plessner, Henning ^a   Betsch, Tilmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applied social cognition; Judgment biases; Natural decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036046431     PISSN: 08952779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.24.3.334     Document Type: Review

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