About the difficulty to make impartial decisions: Referees favor culturally familiar soccer teams;Über die Schwierigkeit, Unparteiische Entscheidungen zu Fällen: Schiedsrichter Bevorzugen Fußballteams ihrer Kultur

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-110

  Messner, Claude ^a,b   Schmid, Benjamin ^a  

^a Psychologisches Institut   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biased judgments; Referees; Soccer

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249996772     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0044-3514.38.2.105     Document Type: Article

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