Performance under pressure in skill tasks: An analysis of professional darts.

Ötting, Marius; Deutscher, Christian; Schneemann, Sandra; Langrock, Roland; Gehrmann, Sebastian; Scholten, Hendrik · PLoS One · 2020

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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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