Psychology of performance and defeat / Anali L. Magnusson and Davin J. Lindberg, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An anatomy of the self-defeating dynamics of aesthetic and existential self-determination : aesthetic power-play as psychic compensation for social marginalization -- The prospect of defeat and insurgent behavior -- Implications of dual-process theories for optimizing motor learning and performance -- The effects of emotions on creative performance : a review -- Do avoidance goals always impair performance? How neuroticism moderates the short-and long-term effects of avoidance versus approach goals on performance? -- Reinforcement of older volunteers' performance in Hong Kong -- The role of cues and stimulus valency in implicit task sequence learning- a task sequence is not enough.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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