After-event reviews: Drawing lessons from successful and failed experience

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 857-871

  Ellis, Shmuel ^a   Davidi, Inbar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

After event reviews; Cause maps; Learning from experience; Mental models; Need for closure

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; ISRAEL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOLDIER;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING;

EID: 26444490035     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.5.857     Document Type: Article

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