Ironie effects in a simulated penalty shooting task: Is the negative wording in the instruction essential?

International Journal of Sport Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-133

  Binsch, Olaf ^a   Oudejans, Raoul R D ^a   Barker, Frank C ^a   Hoozemans, Marcoj M ^c   Savelsbergh, Wgeertj P ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Football; Gaze behavior; Mediation; Negative instruction; Positive instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954335574     PISSN: 00470767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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