Is size misperception of targets simply justification for poor performance?

Perception

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 994-996

  Wesp, Richard ^a   Gasper, John ^a  

^a EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Motivated reasoning; Size perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869782502     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p7281     Document Type: Article

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