Predicting Soccer Matches: A Reassessment of the Benefit of Unconscious Thinking

We evaluate Dijksterhuis, Bos, van der Leij, & van Baaren (2009), Psychological Science, on the benefit of unconscious thinking in predicting the outcomes of soccer matches. We conclude that the evidence that unconscious thinking helps experts to make better predictions is tenuous both from theo...

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Published inJudgment and Decision Making Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 200 - 206
Main Authors Claudia González-Vallejo, Nathaniel Phillips
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tallahassee Society for Judgment and Decision Making 01.06.2010
Society for Judgment & Decision Making
Cambridge University Press
SeriesJudgment and Decision Making
Subjects
Accuracy
Decision making
Experiments
expertise
Hypotheses
predictive judgments
Soccer
unconscious thinking
expertise
unconscious thinking
predictive judgments
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Summary:We evaluate Dijksterhuis, Bos, van der Leij, & van Baaren (2009), Psychological Science, on the benefit of unconscious thinking in predicting the outcomes of soccer matches. We conclude that the evidence that unconscious thinking helps experts to make better predictions is tenuous both from theoretical and statistical perspectives.
ISSN:1930-2975
1930-2975
DOI:10.1017/S193029750000108X