Good in Practice, Frozen in the Game: Choking Under Pressure Responds to Training, With Pooled Effects of 0.30–0.66 Across 21 Studies and the Largest Gains in Closed Skills
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Every coach has an athlete who is excellent on Tuesday and ordinary on Saturday. The skill is there, the fitness is there, and the result is not, and the athlete usually knows it. The pattern has a name in sport psychology, choking under pressure, and it has been studied long enough to have a meta-analysis of the interventions that reduce it. This article covers what the pooled evidence says works, and what one recent trial says about creating pressure in training at all.
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