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Reinvestment, task complexity and decision making under pressure in basketball
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posted on 2016-04-12, 12:48 authored by Noel P. Kinrade, Robin JacksonRobin Jackson, Kelly J. AshfordThe aims of this study were to investigate choking susceptibility in a perceptual judgment task and to examine the predictive validity of the Decision Specific Reinvestment Scale (DSRS). A computer-based, choice response time basketball passing task was performed under low and high pressure conditions. Complexity was manipulated by depicting 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 scenarios. Repeated-measures ANOVAs revealed performance decrements under pressure with regard to response accuracy, moderated by task complexity, and a general speeding of performance over successive blocks. The DSRS was a significant predictor of poorer response accuracy under pressure in the high-complex task. Examination of the DSRS subscales revealed rumination as the only significant factor, predicting changes in response time and accuracy in the low- and high-complex versions of the task, respectively. Findings support the predictive validity of the DSRS, and highlight the importance of avoiding ruminative thoughts when making complex decisions under pressure.
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School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Psychology of Sport and ExerciseVolume
20Pages
11 - 19Citation
KINRADE, N.P., JACKSON, R.C. and ASHFORD, K.J., 2015. Reinvestment, task complexity and decision making under pressure in basketball. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 20, pp. 11 - 19Publisher
Elsevier / © The AuthorsVersion
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This is an Open Access article published by Elsevier and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.ISSN
1469-0292Publisher version
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- en