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Download full textGrove, J. Robert; And Others – 1983
To determine the influence of successful or unsuccessful competitive outcomes and small or large margins of victory/defeat on performance, pairs of female undergraduate students "competed" against each other in a dart tossing contest. False feedback about the outcomes and margin of victory/defeat led subjects to believe they were winning every…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Competition, Conditioning
