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Marius Ötting1,2, Christian Deutscher2, Sandra Schneemann2
1Department of Business Administration and Economics, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Abstract:
Understanding and predicting how individuals perform in high-pressure situations is of importance in designing and managing workplaces. We investigate performance under pressure in professional darts as a near-ideal setting with no direct interaction between players and a high number of observations per subject. Analyzing almost one year of tournament data covering 32,274 dart throws, we find no evidence in favor of either choking or excelling under pressure.
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