Sports performance judgments from a social cognitive perspective

• Verfasst von: Plessner, Henning [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Haar, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Sports performance judgments from a social cognitive perspective
• Verf.angabe: Henning Plessner, Thomas Haar
• E-Jahr: 2006
• Jahr: November 2006
• Umfang: 21 S.
• Fussnoten: Available online 8 June 2006 ; Gesehen am 22.07.2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Psychology of sport and exercise
• Ort Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2000
• Jahr Quelle: 2006
• Band/Heft Quelle: 7(2006), 6, Seite 555-575
• ISSN Quelle: 1878-5476
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2006.03.007
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Biases
• Sach-SW: Information processing
• Sach-SW: Social cognition and sports
• Sach-SW: Sports performance judgments
• K10plus-PPN: 1811328075

Abstract

Objective - Judging one's own or others’ performance is a central task for most people involved in competitive sports—either as athletes, coaches, referees, or spectators. Social cognition is the general study of how people make sense of other people and themselves on the basis of an information processing framework. This paper presents a social-cognitive overview of empirical work on judging sport performance. It follows the basic steps of social information processing (i.e., perception, encoding/categorization, memory processes, and information integration). - Conclusions - Ample anecdotal and empirical evidence indicates that sports performance judgments are at least as prone to systematic errors (biases) as other social judgments. Thus, achieving accurate performance evaluations can help to improve the quality of decision making on various levels of sport behavior (e.g., referee decisions, strategy choice, team selection). The application of a social cognition approach provides insights into the processes that underlie biases in judgments of sport performance and, thus, some hints on how to prevent them. In addition, we propose possible future applications of social cognition concepts in sports judgment research.