Bullseye!: How Power Improves Motor Performance

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 224-232

  Burgmer, Pascal ^a   Englich, Birte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

goal representation; goals; motor performance; performance; power; social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874178496     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612452014     Document Type: Article

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