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Verbal persuasion has been shown to influence psychological and behavioral outcomes. The present study had two objectives: (1) to examine the effect of verbal persuasion on task choice in a balance setting and (2) to evaluate the use of verbal persuasion as an approach to experimentally induce mismatches between perceived and actual balance. Healthy young adults (N=68) completed an 8-m tandem walk...
This study was designed to manipulate balance efficacy using verbal persuasion to investigate its influence on perceived and actual balance in healthy young adults (n=46). Participants completed two balance tasks and were then randomized to either a high (performance within the top 10% for age and gender) or low (performance within the bottom 10% for age and gender) balance efficacy group, regardless...
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