Audience support and choking under pressure: a home disadvantage? Export

@article{Wal05, abstract = {This paper highlights the not-so-obvious but compelling reasons why the same supportive audiences that can help performers attain their highest potential also may increase performers' risk of choking under pressure. Drawing primarily from social psychology research and theory, we conclude that audience support magnifies performance pressure and induces performers to avoid failure rather than seek success during the most critical moments of performance contests. Although supportive audiences can inspire performers to excel when motivation would otherwise be lacking, audiences may also lead performers towards maladaptive self-monitoring and overcautiousness when the stakes are highest. The increased self-focus that supportive audiences induce can disrupt the automatic execution of the skills performers possess. Dispositional and situational moderators of the relationship between audience support and performance are reviewed.}, address = {Department of Psychology, Trinity University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA. harry.wallace@trinity.edu}, author = {Wallace, H. M. and Baumeister, R. F. and Vohs, K. D.}, citeulike-article-id = {2877650}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16089187}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16089187}, issn = {0264-0414}, journal = {Journal of sports sciences}, keywords = {choking, gd, pressure, psychological, stress}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {429--438}, posted-at = {2008-06-13 11:12:29}, priority = {2}, title = {Audience support and choking under pressure: a home disadvantage?}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16089187}, volume = {23}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - Wal05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2877650 N2 - This paper highlights the not-so-obvious but compelling reasons why the same supportive audiences that can help performers attain their highest potential also may increase performers' risk of choking under pressure. Drawing primarily from social psychology research and theory, we conclude that audience support magnifies performance pressure and induces performers to avoid failure rather than seek success during the most critical moments of performance contests. Although supportive audiences can inspire performers to excel when motivation would otherwise be lacking, audiences may also lead performers towards maladaptive self-monitoring and overcautiousness when the stakes are highest. The increased self-focus that supportive audiences induce can disrupt the automatic execution of the skills performers possess. Dispositional and situational moderators of the relationship between audience support and performance are reviewed. IS - 4 JF - Journal of sports sciences SN - 0264-0414 AD - Department of Psychology, Trinity University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA. harry.wallace@trinity.edu EP - 438 TI - Audience support and choking under pressure: a home disadvantage? VL - 23 SP - 429 KW - choking KW - gd KW - pressure KW - psychological KW - stress AU - Wallace, HM AU - Baumeister, RF AU - Vohs, KD PY - 2005/04// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16089187 ER -