OBJECTIVES: Extensive searches for the “hot hand” have been performed in a variety of
sports since the pioneering study of Gilovich, Vallone, and Tversky (1985), but empirical …

Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This
volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and …

The “hot hand” belief in sports refers to the conviction that a player has a higher chance of
making a shot after two or three successful shots than after two or three misses (resulting in …

Psychological Momentum (PM) is commonly referred to in competitive sports, but still has to
be considered elusive from a scientific perspective. This study explores coaches' perception …

When predicting the next outcome in a sequence of events, people often appear to expect
streaky patterns, such as that sport players can develop a “hot hand,” even if the sequence is …

El objetivo de esta investigación fue diseñar y validar una herramienta de observación ad-
hoc para el análisis de las rachas de lanzamiento en el baloncesto profesional. Para dicho …

Purpose: Recent evidence of the hot hand in sport—where success breeds success in a
positive recency of successful shots, for instance—indicates that this pattern does not …

Belief in streaks—known as a hot (or cold) hand in sports—is a common element in human
decision making. In three video-based experiments, we investigated the belief–behavior …

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert den Siebenmeterwurf (7M) im Spitzenhandball aus
unterschiedlichen, sich ergänzenden Perspektiven: Phänomenologisch als standardisierte …

El término hot hand (en ocasiones traducido como 'fenómeno de estar en racha') hace
referencia a un hipotético aumento del rendimiento atribuible al encadenamiento de varios …