Choking under pressure in archery

Alessandro Bucciol and Alessandro Castagnetti

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2020, vol. 89, issue C

Abstract: In high pressure situations, individuals may perform well below expectations. This is called “choking under pressure” and we study it in the context of a competitive sports environment. We construct a unique dataset on archery to study whether performance deteriorates at the end of a match, when two players compete in a tiebreak. Our results suggest that pressure plays a key role: overall performance deteriorates in the tiebreak. This effect is even more pronounced in the tiebreak of the most important tournaments, but only for women.

JEL-codes: D01 D91 Z20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2020.101581

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