Crowd noise as a cue in referee decisions contributes to the home advantage

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 483-498

  Unkelbach, Christian ^a   Memmert, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cue learning; Home advantage; Referee decisions; Sport psychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GERMANY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; POPULATION DENSITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIOLOGY; SPORT;

CUES; DECISION MAKING; GERMANY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCCER; SOCIOLOGY; SPORTS; TRACK AND FIELD;

EID: 77958161770     PISSN: 08952779     EISSN: 15432904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.32.4.483     Document Type: Article

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