Hot Hand Belief and Hot Hand Behavior: A Comment on Koehler and Conley

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 167-170

  Gula, Bartosz ^a   Raab, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptiveness; Base rate; Basketball; Ecological rationality; Streaks

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642338679     PISSN: 08952779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.26.1.167     Document Type: Review

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