The effectiveness of verbal self‐guidance as a transfer of training intervention: its impact on presentation performance, self efficacy and anxietyFootnote1

A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the 2000 IFSAM‐ASAC Conference. The authors would like to thank Gary P. Latham and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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