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Judgement, decision making and success in sport

"Judgment, Decision-Making and Success in Sport presents a thorough overview and assessment of the study of Judgment and Decision-Making (JDM) in sports psychology, and represents an important source of information for those interested in the possible causes and reasons for success and failure in sp...

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Main Author: Bar-Eli, Michael
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Plessner, Henning, Raab, Markus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Wiley, 2011.
Series:W-B series in sport and exercise psychology ; 1.
Subjects:
Sports > Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Judgment and Decision Making as a topic of sport science.
  • 1.1 Maximization and optimization in sport.
  • 1.2 JDM history.
  • 1.3 The development of JDM research in sport.
  • 1.4 Rationale and structure of this book.
  • 2. Theories of (social) judgment.
  • 2.1 Psychophysics.
  • 2.2 Social Judgment Theory.
  • 2.3 Social cognition.
  • 2.4 Summary.
  • 3. Theories of decision making.
  • 3.1 Subjective Expected Utility Theory.
  • 3.2 Prospect Theory.
  • 3.3 Decisional Field Theory.
  • 3.4 Simple heuristic approach.
  • 3.5 Summary.
  • 4. Expertise in JDM.
  • 4.1 What are the components of expertise in JDM?
  • 4.2 How can we measure JDM expertise?
  • 4.3 How can we explain JDM expertise?
  • 4.4 How can we develop JDM expertise?
  • 4.5 Summary.
  • 5. Athletes.
  • 5.1 Judging one's own performance.
  • 5.2 What choices are athletes confronted with?
  • 5.3 How do athletes choose?
  • 5.4 JDM training for athletes.
  • 5.5 Summary.
  • 6. Managers and Coaches.
  • 6.1 JDM as a leadership task.
  • 6.2 Managerial JDM.
  • 6.3 Coaches' JDM.
  • 7. Referees.
  • 7.1 The tasks of referees.
  • 7.1 Perceptual limitations.
  • 7.2 Prior knowledge.
  • 7.4. Rules of information integration.
  • 7.5. Improving referees' JDM.
  • 8. Observers.
  • 8.1 Biases in judgments of sport performance.
  • 8.2 Predictions and betting.
  • References.
  • Index.

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