High altitude climbers as ethnomethodologists making sense of cognitive dissonance: Ethnographic insights from an attempt to scale Mt. Everest

Sport Psychologist

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 336-355

  Burke, Shaunna M ^a   Sparkes, Andrew C ^b   Allen Collinson, Jacquelyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 53349090311     PISSN: 08884781     EISSN: 15432793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.22.3.336     Document Type: Article

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