Self-talk and sports performance: A meta-analysis

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 348-356

  Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis ^a   Zourbanos, Nikos ^a   Galanis, Evangelos ^a   Theodorakis, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cognition and behavior; Interventions; Mental strategies; Review; Self instructions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051809929     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691611413136     Document Type: Review

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