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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
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Was dem Huhn ins Ohr geht
Bild der Wissenschaft: Die kleinen Hühner wurden für die Tests bereits kurz nach dem Schlüpfen darauf trainiert, einem kleinen roten Plastikzylinder zu folgen. Im eigentlichen Test ein paar Tage später setzten die Forscher sie dann
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World Cup Shootout Goalkeepers Favor Right If Team Is Behind, Study Finds
Bloomberg: Goalkeepers tend to dive right when their soccer team is trailing in a World Cup penalty shootout, according to a study to be published in the Psychological Science journal. Researchers at the University of
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Anti-Prejudice Campaigns Can Increase Bias
LiveScience: Campaigns to reduce prejudice may backfire if they take the bossy approach and tell people what to do, new research indicates. In experiments, researchers looked at two different approaches to persuading people to reduce
