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- Title
Ironic and Reinvestment Effects in Baseball Pitching: How Information About an Opponent Can Influence Performance Under Pressure.
- Authors
Gray, Rob; Orn, Anders; Woodman, Tim
- Abstract
Are pressure-induced performance errors in experts associated with novice-like skill execution (as predicted by reinvestment/conscious processing theories) or expert execution toward a result that the performer typically intends to avoid (as predicted by ironic processes theory)? The present study directly compared these predictions using a baseball pitching task with two groups of experienced pitchers. One group was shown only their target, while the other group was shown the target and an ironic (avoid) zone. Both groups demonstrated significantly fewer target hits under pressure. For the target-only group, this was accompanied by significant changes in expertise-related kinematic variables. In the ironic group, the number of pitches thrown in the ironic zone was significantly higher under pressure, and there were no significant changes in kinematics. These results suggest that information about an opponent can influence the mechanisms underlying pressure-induced performance errors.
- Subjects
PITCHING (Baseball); BASEBALL techniques; KINEMATICS in sports; BASEBALL players; BASEBALL tournaments; ATHLETIC ability &; psychology; BASEBALL; KINEMATICS; PSYCHOLOGY of movement; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2017, Vol 39, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0895-2779
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1123/jsep.2016-0035