How embodied cognitions affect judgments: height-related attribution bias in football foul calls

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-22

  van Quaquebeke, Niels ^a   Giessner, Steffen R ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision cue; Decision making; Dominance; Information processing; Power; Refereeing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BODY HEIGHT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPORT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BODY HEIGHT; COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREJUDICE; SOCCER;

EID: 77950359098     PISSN: 08952779     EISSN: 15432904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.32.1.3     Document Type: Article

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