Michael Bar-Eli, Henning Plessner, Markus Raab

Judgment, Decision Making and Success in Sport

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Produktbeschreibung

Judgment, Decision-Making and Success in Sport presents athorough overview and assessment of the study of Judgment andDecision-Making (JDM) in sports psychology, and represents animportant source of information for those interested in thepossible causes and reasons for success and failure in sport.

The only book to apply the principles of JDM to sport
Applies theory to practice by looking at problems of athletes,coaches, and referees and providing recommendations for dealingwith them
Offers an overview of current JDM research
Useful for psychologists, physical education teachers, sportsscientists, and researchers in this field

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Produktdetails

• W-B Series in Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780470694541
• ISBN-10: 0470694548
• Artikelnr.: 32568316

Autorenporträt

Michael Bar-Eli is the Nat Holman Chair in Sports Research at the Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management and Head of the Management Studies program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He is also Senior Vice President of the Asian-South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology. Henning Plessner is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Leipzig. His main research areas are Judgment and Decision-Making in sports and the psychology of intuition. Markus Raab is Department Head of Performance Psychology at the German Sport University Cologne. He is Editor of the German Journal of Sport Psychology, Section Editor of the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, and Editorial Board Member of Psychology of Sport and Exercise.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Judgement and Decision Making as a Topic of Sport Science 1
Maximization and optimization in sport 3
JDM history 4
The development of JDM research in sport 6
Rationale and structure of this book 10
Theories of (Social) Judgement 13
Psychophysics 16
Social judgement theory 18
Social cognition 19
Summary 25
Theories of Decision Making 27
Subjective expected utility theory 31
Prospect theory 32
Decisional field theory 33
Simple heuristic approach 35
Summary 37
Expertise in JDM 39
What are the components of expertise in JDM? 42
How can we measure JDM expertise? 43
How can we explain JDM expertise? 46
How can we develop JDM expertise? 47
Summary 48
Athletes 51
Judging one's own performance 53
What choices are athletes confronted with? 59
How do athletes choose? 66
JDM training for athletes 78
Summary 89
Managers and Coaches 91
JDM as a leadership task 93
Managerial JDM 95
Coaches' JDM 108
Summary 121
Referees 123
The tasks of referees 126
Perceptual limitations 127
Prior knowledge 132
Rules of information integration 136
Improving referees' JDM 139
Summary 143
Observers 145
Biases in judgements of sport performance 148
Predictions and betting 154
Summary 160
References 163
Author Index 189
Subject Index 201