M . McCrea and Charles E . Kimble Make it ' ' Just a Man ' s Game ? ' ' Public Self - Focus and Sex Differences in Behavioral Self - Handicapping : Does Increasing Self - Threat Still
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Public Self-Focus and Sex Differences in Behavioral Self-Handicapping: Does Increasing Self-Threat Still Make it "Just a Man’s Game?"
The pres ent study exam ined the effects of pub lic self-focus and par tic i pants’ sex on self-hand i cap ping behav ior. Research in the area of self-hand i cap ping has con sis tently shown that men alone tend to self-hand i cap behaviorally. Because con di tions of pub lic self-focus tend to make the evaluative impli ca tions of per for mance more salient, the authors hypoth e sized that pe...
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تاریخ انتشار 2000