Teaching Critical Thinking Skills: Ability, Motivation, Intervention, and the Pygmalion Effect

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 133-147

  Howard, Larry W ^a   Tang, Thomas Li Ping ^a   Jill Austin, M ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ability; Critical thinking skills; Motivation; Priming effect; Race; Self fulfilling prophesy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893708191     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2084-0     Document Type: Article

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