Crowd reception influences avoidance behavior during football penalty-kicks, but you wouldn't know it: A retrospective analysis of professional games. (July 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Crowd reception influences avoidance behavior during football penalty-kicks, but you wouldn't know it: A retrospective analysis of professional games. (July 2022)
- Main Title:
- Crowd reception influences avoidance behavior during football penalty-kicks, but you wouldn't know it: A retrospective analysis of professional games
- Authors:
- Park, S.H.
Uiga, L.
Masters, R.S.W. - Abstract:
- Abstract: For most soccer players, penalty-kicks are unpleasantly valenced, but the extent to which intensity of emotions affects their decision-making is unclear. We hypothesized that a hostile crowd raises emotional intensity more than a supportive crowd during penalty-kicks, which causes players to make avoidance based decisions more often in the presence of a hostile crowd. We sourced video footage of penalty-kicks during professional games between 2000 and 2005 (N = 91), during which the goalkeeper was marginally off-center (1.6%–3.0%) or obviously off-center (>3.0%). Taking the easiest option is a marker of avoidance behavior, so we analysed the proportion of penalty-kicks directed towards the larger side of the goal. Players kicked towards the larger side more often in front of a hostile crowd than a supportive crowd, but only when the goalkeeper was marginally off-center. The findings suggest that in the high-pressure environment of penalty-kicks, emotional intensity moderates the decisions that kickers make, without their awareness. Highlights: Examined the effect of hostile and supportive crowds on soccer penalty-kick behavior. Avoidance behavior was greater when facing a hostile crowd, but only when the goalkeeper was imperceptibly off-center. A hostile crowd may promote pre-attentive processing, which facilitates detection of subtle differences in space.
- Is Part Of:
- Psychology of sport and exercise. Volume 61(2022)
- Journal:
- Psychology of sport and exercise
- Issue:
- Volume 61(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 61, Issue 2022 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 61
- Issue:
- 2022
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0061-2022-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07
- Subjects:
- Avoidance motivation -- Valence -- Arousal -- Football penalty-kicks -- Off-center goalkeeper paradigm
Sports -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals
Exercise -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals
Psychology -- Periodicals
Sports -- Periodicals
Exercise -- Periodicals
Societies, Medical -- Periodicals
Psychology
Sports
Exercise
Societies, Medical
Sports -- Aspect psychologique -- Périodiques
Exercice -- Aspect psychologique -- Périodiques
613.71019 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14690292 ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102169 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1469-0292
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