The home advantage in sport competitions: Courneya and Carron's (1992) conceptual framework a decade later

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 395-407

  Carron, Albert V ^a   Loughhead, Todd M ^b   Bray, Steven R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crowd effects; Facility familiarity; Officiating decisions; Travel factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CROWDING; DECISION MAKING; HOME; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPORT; TERRITORIALITY; TRAVEL;

COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MASS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPORTS; TERRITORIALITY; TRAVEL;

EID: 17844386344     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410400021542     Document Type: Article

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