A second thought on the success-breeds-success model: Comment on Iso-Ahola and Dotson (2014)

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 106-111

  Avugos, Simcha ^a,b   Bar Eli, Michael ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WINGATE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hot hand; Mediation moderation; Momentum; Success failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925775688     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: 19391552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000024     Document Type: Note

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