Emotional and motivational reactions to failure: The role of illusions of control and explicitness of feedback

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-114

  Langens, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Failure feedback; Illusion of control; Persistence and mood following failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547311902     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-007-9058-9     Document Type: Article

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