Beliefs about the "Hot Hand" in basketball across the adult life span

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 601-605

  Castel, Alan D ^a   Rossi, Aimee Drolet ^b   McGillivray, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision making; Heuristics; Hot hand; Judgment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BELIEF; AGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BASKETBALL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84873025326     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026991     Document Type: Article

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