Judgment, Decision-making and Success in Sport
Published on 17. August 2011
230 pages
978-1-119-97704-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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A comprehensive source of knowledge derived from the mostinfluential, diverse, and reliable theoretical and experimentalreferences. The authors describe complex concepts, and theirapplications, in a simple and easy-to-understand language, whichbenefit both the expert and novice scholars. Judgment,Decision-Making and Success in Sport is a bookrecommended to all those who wish to further their knowledge andunderstanding of performers' behaviors and achievements. --Gershon T Gershon Tenenbaum, Benjamin S.Bloom Professor, Florida State University, USAMore details
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Persons
Michael Bar-Eli is the Nat Holman Chair in Sports Researchat the Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management and Headof the Management Studies program at Ben-Gurion University of theNegev in Israel. He is also Senior Vice President of theAsian-South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology.
Henning Plessner is Professor of Social Psychology at theUniversity of Leipzig. His main research areas are Judgment andDecision-Making in sports and the psychology of intuition.
Markus Raab is Department Head of Performance Psychologyat the German Sport University Cologne. He is Editor of theGerman Journal of Sport Psychology, Section Editor of theInternational Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, andEditorial Board Member of Psychology of Sport andExercise.
Content
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.
