Two Failures to Replicate High-Performance-Goal Priming Effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Harris, Christine R ^a   Coburn, Noriko ^a   Rohrer, Doug ^b   Pashler, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE GOAL PRIMING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REPLICATION STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; LINGUISTICS; MOTIVATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84881576156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072467     Document Type: Article

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