When to Blink and When to Think: Preference for Intuitive Decisions Results in Faster and Better Tactical Choices

• Autores: Markus Raab, Sylvain Laborde
• Localización: Research quarterly for exercise and sport, ISSN 0270-1367, Vol. 82, Nº. 1, 2011, págs. 89-98
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Intuition is often considered an effective manner of decision making in sports. In this study we investigated whether a preference for intuition over deliberation results in faster and better lab-based choices in team handball attack situations with 54 male and female handball players of different expertise levels. We assumed that intuitive choices�due to their affective nature�are faster when multiple options are to be considered. The results show that athletes who had a preference for intuitive decisions made faster and better choices than athletes classified as deliberative decision makers. It is important that experts were more intuitive than near-expert and nonexpert players. The results support a take-the-first heuristic defining how options are searched for, how option generation is stopped, and how an option is chosen. Implications for the training of intuitive decision making are presented