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Raab, Markus; MacMahon, Clare – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2015
Purpose: Previous discussions of the hot hand belief, wherein athletes believe that they have a greater chance of scoring after 2 or 3 hits (successes) compared with 2 or 3 misses, have focused on whether this is the case within game statistics. Researchers have argued that the perception of the hot hand in random sequences is a bias of the…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Decision Making, Athletes, Beliefs