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 …

Cognition and behavior exhibit biases consistent with future expectations, and some of
these biases result in momentum-like effects and have been linked with the idea of …

Behavioral economics began with the intention of eliminating the psychological blind spot in
rational choice theory and ended up portraying psychology as the study of irrationality. In its …

Whether trying to win Presidential primaries, trading stocks, or playing sports, performance-
enhancing effects of psychological momentum (PM) are widely accepted. But, does initial …

Performance science is a fairly new multidisciplinary field that integrates performance
domains such as sports, medicine, business, and the arts. To give its many branches a …

Human decision-makers often exhibit the hot-hand phenomenon, a tendency to perceive
positive serial autocorrelations in independent sequential events. The term is named after …

Coaches' decision-making has been identified as a key element of coaches' practice.
Nevertheless, attempts at a theoretical underpinning as a legitimate basis for empirical work …

This study aimed to revisit the complex nature of serial dependency of performance during a
match, examining the prospective associations between psychological processes and …

The main objective was to know the elite coaches' opinions regarding the relevance,
definition, and importance of volleyball contextual variables to measure individual …

Organizational goals are assigned to individuals, and thus differ from goals that individuals
voluntarily adopt. The Carnegie School has a significant research stream on how …