Beyond genetics in Mental Rotation Test performance. The power of effort attribution

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 464-468

  Moè, Angelica ^a   Pazzaglia, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attribution; Mental rotation; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956264814     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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