Confidence enhanced performance? – The causal effects of success on future performance in professional golf tournaments
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Circumstances that raise learners' expectations of future performance success can promote further success, improvement, and learning.
“While lack of confidence may detract from movement fluidity or automaticity, circumstances that enhance learners' expectations of future performance success can potentiate even more success, improvement, and learning (Rosenqvist & Skans, 2015).”
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- Authors
- Rosenqvist, O., & Skans, O. N.
- Affiliations
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Skans, Oskar Nordström
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-09
- Volume
- 117
- Pages
- 281-295
- ISSN
- 0167-2681 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2108789206
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 12.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Sports Analytics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Keywords
- future performance, professional golf, tournament performance, regression discontinuity design, prize money
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