Judgement, Decision Making and Success in Sport

Judgement, Decision Making and Success in Sport......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Judgement and Decision Making as a Topic of Sport Science......Page 11
Maximization and optimization in sport......Page 13
JDM history......Page 14
The development of JDM research in sport......Page 16
Rationale and structure of this book......Page 20
Theories of (Social) Judgement......Page 23
Psychophysics......Page 26
Social judgement theory......Page 28
Social cognition......Page 29
Summary......Page 35
Theories of Decision Making......Page 37
Subjective expected utility theory......Page 41
Prospect theory......Page 42
Decisional field theory......Page 43
Simple heuristic approach......Page 45
Summary......Page 47
Expertise in JDM......Page 49
What are the components of expertise in JDM?......Page 52
How can we measure JDM expertise?......Page 53
How can we explain JDM expertise?......Page 56
How can we develop JDM expertise?......Page 57
Summary......Page 58
Athletes......Page 61
Judging one’s own performance......Page 63
What choices are athletes confronted with?......Page 69
How do athletes choose?......Page 76
JDM training for athletes......Page 88
Summary......Page 99
Managers and Coaches......Page 101
JDM as a leadership task......Page 103
Managerial JDM......Page 105
Coaches’ JDM......Page 118
Summary......Page 131
Referees......Page 133
The tasks of referees......Page 136
Perceptual limitations......Page 137
Prior knowledge......Page 142
Rules of information integration......Page 146
Improving referees’ JDM......Page 149
Summary......Page 153
Observers......Page 155
Biases in judgements of sport performance......Page 158
Predictions and betting......Page 164
Summary......Page 170
References......Page 173
Author Index......Page 199
Subject Index......Page 211