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A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer
Distinguishing between a fair and unfair tackle in soccer can be difficult. For referees, choosing to call a foul often requires a decision despite some level of ambiguity. We were interested in whether a well documented perceptual-motor bias associated with reading direction influenced foul judgmen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20628648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011667 |
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author | Kranjec, Alexander Lehet, Matthew Bromberger, Bianca Chatterjee, Anjan |
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description | Distinguishing between a fair and unfair tackle in soccer can be difficult. For referees, choosing to call a foul often requires a decision despite some level of ambiguity. We were interested in whether a well documented perceptual-motor bias associated with reading direction influenced foul judgments. Prior studies have shown that readers of left-to-right languages tend to think of prototypical events as unfolding concordantly, from left-to-right in space. It follows that events moving from right-to-left should be perceived as atypical and relatively debased. In an experiment using a go/no-go task and photographs taken from real games, participants made more foul calls for pictures depicting left-moving events compared to pictures depicting right-moving events. These data suggest that two referees watching the same play from distinct vantage points may be differentially predisposed to call a foul. |
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spelling | pubmed-28988142010-07-13 A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer Kranjec, Alexander Lehet, Matthew Bromberger, Bianca Chatterjee, Anjan PLoS One Research Article Distinguishing between a fair and unfair tackle in soccer can be difficult. For referees, choosing to call a foul often requires a decision despite some level of ambiguity. We were interested in whether a well documented perceptual-motor bias associated with reading direction influenced foul judgments. Prior studies have shown that readers of left-to-right languages tend to think of prototypical events as unfolding concordantly, from left-to-right in space. It follows that events moving from right-to-left should be perceived as atypical and relatively debased. In an experiment using a go/no-go task and photographs taken from real games, participants made more foul calls for pictures depicting left-moving events compared to pictures depicting right-moving events. These data suggest that two referees watching the same play from distinct vantage points may be differentially predisposed to call a foul. Public Library of Science 2010-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2898814/ /pubmed/20628648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011667 Text en Kranjec et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kranjec, Alexander Lehet, Matthew Bromberger, Bianca Chatterjee, Anjan A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer |
title | A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer |
title_full | A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer |
title_fullStr | A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer |
title_full_unstemmed | A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer |
title_short | A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer |
title_sort | sinister bias for calling fouls in soccer |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20628648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011667 |
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