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Goalkeepers ‘dive right on high pressure penos’
Yahoo UK & Ireland: A group of Dutch scientists have studied penalty shoot-outs and have come up with some interesting findings. According to the boffins, goalkeepers tend to instinctively dive to the right in high
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When The Brain Decides
Every day we have to make decisions that involve evaluating or choosing between options, often without much information to go on. So how we do it? How do we prevent analysis paralysis? Psychological theory suggests
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Pursuing Non-Conscious Goals
You’re at dinner with your date’s family and you’re already feeling slightly nervous, anxious and wondering what type of an impression you will make. All of a sudden, your date’s little nephew comes running up
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Het geheim achter voetbalpenalty’s
Metro Nederland: Links of rechts duiken? Dat is de grote vraag en het keuzemoment van keepers als er strafschoppen worden genomen. Maar nu beweert een groep Nederlandse psychologen dat ze een antwoord hebben op deze
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Our Brains Have Multiple Mechanisms For Learning
One of the most important things humans do is learning this kind of pattern: when A happens, B follows. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal
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Rooney take note! Goalies dive to the RIGHT in penalty shootouts if their team is behind
Daily Mail: It’s news that could have proved useful to footballers Stuart Pearce, Gareth Southgate and Jamie Carragher – goalkeepers under pressure are more likely to dive to the right. The England players all missed
