posted on 2016-07-20, 08:46authored byRichard S.W. Masters, John van der Kamp, Robin JacksonRobin Jackson
The penalty kick generates a variety of strong emotions in soccer
(Carroll, Ebrahim, Tilling, Macleod, & Smith, 2002), and places
the goalkeeper at such a disadvantage that only approximately
18% of penalty kicks are saved (Kropp & Trapp, 1999). We
asked whether a goalkeeper can, by standing marginally left or
right of goal center, bias a penalty taker implicitly to kick to the
side with greater area, thus allowing the goalkeeper to dive in
that direction to make a save. We show that the penalty taker
is unlikely to be mindful that the goalkeeper is off center, but
nevertheless can identify the side with greater area and will be
more likely to direct the penalty kick to that side than to the
other side.
History
School
Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Psychological Science
Volume
18
Pages
222 - 223
Citation
MASTERS, R., VAN DER KAMP, J. and JACKSON, R., 2007. Imperceptibly off-center goalkeepers influence penalty-kick direction in soccer. Psychological Science, 18 (3), pp.222-223
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