Implicit Goalkeeper Influences on Goal Side Selection in Representative Penalty Kicking Tasks.

ABSTRACT: In well-controlled lab situations, marginal displacements of the goalkeeper on the goal line affect goal side selection of penalty takers implicitly, that is, without the penalty takers being consciously aware of the displacement. Whether this effect is retained in more representative real-life situations with competing goalkeepers and penalty takers has not been verified. In the current study, penalty takers were instructed to position the goalkeepers at the centre of the goal. They then performed penalty kicks adopting either a keeper independent or a keeper dependent strategy, while goalkeepers actually attempted to save the ball by strategically diving early or late. Analyses of trials in which penalty takers failed to place the goalkeeper in the centre of the goal (although they incor

SUBMITTER: Noel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4533970 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature