Psychological momentum-not a statistical but psychological phenomenon: Response to commentary by Avugos and Bar-Eli (2015)

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 112-116

  Iso Ahola, Seppo E ^a   Dotson, Charles O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot hand; Mediation; Momentum; Success failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925613887     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: 19391552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000026     Document Type: Letter

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