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How Perfectionism Affects Athletes’ Performance After Competitive Failure
By Michael Brown — 2020
Elite athletes are more likely to rise to the occasion after a failure if they keep potential unhelpful consequences of striving for perfection in check, according to a University of Alberta study, the first of its kind to investigate perfectionism and performance following failure in competitive athletics.
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