General Ability and Specialization: Evidence From Penalty Kicks in Soccer

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim; Wedow, Michael

doi:10.1177/1527002510371194

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“…8 When faced with less frequent left-handed opponents, a compromised ability to anticipate shot outcome has been observed in tennis, 7 handball goalkeeping, 9 and volleyball. 4 Similarly in team sports, Baumann et al 10 for example, identified that 76% of left-footed penalties were successful compared to 72% of right-footed in the German Bundesliga between 1995 and 2007. The benefit for left-handers/footers has collectively been termed the negative frequency-dependent advantage hypothesis 8 and suggests performance advantages gained from perceptual-cognitive experience are dependent upon the frequency and similarity of the movements and actions being observed and analysed.…”

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Laterality frequency, team familiarity, and game experience affect kicking-foot identification in Australian football players

Moore

Adams

O’Dwyer

et al. 2017

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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This study examined whether laterality frequency, team familiarity, and game experience affected preferred kicking foot identification in professional Australian Football players. Using a repeated-measures experimental design, 13 and 10 players, respectively, identified the kicking foot of 30 teammates and 30 opponents using static images in a randomised sequence. Accuracy (%), reaction time (RT ms), and discrimination capability indices were examined. Overall, participants were less accurate and had slower reaction times when identifying the kicking foot of opposing team players relative to the speed and accuracy of identifying teammates. Significantly lower discrimination accuracy was also evident in participants' capability to identify left-footed players from two different opposing teams. In moderating trends, opposing player game experience was correlated with accuracy and reduced reaction times, while participant game experience correlated with faster reaction times only. Laterality, (opposing) team familiarity, and game experience affect kicking foot identification in Australian Football with training and performance implications.

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Laterality frequency, team familiarity, and game experience affect kicking-foot identification in Australian football players

Moore

Adams

O’Dwyer

et al. 2017

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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“…Average player ratings reflect the player's individual performance (Baumann et al, 2011) as well as his contribution to the team performance (Frick, 2010). The ratings are assigned by two sport journalist experts out of a trained, stable expert team from a German Soccer magazine called "Kicker".…”

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High Performers = Better Leaders? Probing the Validity of Performance-based Promotion to Fill Leader Positions

Je¹,

Krumm²,

Zerres³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Promoting high-performing employees to leadership positions is a pervasive practice and has high face validity. However, little is known about the actual link between employee and subsequent leader performance, as prior results are inconclusive. Given the prevalence of this meritocratic promotion strategy, we conducted a study to address this inconsistency. To account for the diverging results, we (a) competitively tested predictions from different theoretical perspectives (i.e., the performance requirements perspective, the follower-centric perspective, and the Theory of Expert Leadership), (b) considered possible changes in the predictive validity of this strategy over time, and (c) included job complexity as potential moderator of the link between employee and subsequent leader performance. In a high stakes context (i.e., the first German soccer division), we tested the initial predictive validity of employee performance for leader performance immediately following the promotion and the ensuing development over time. Our results suggest a low validity of meritocratic promotion, as we could not find evidence for a link between employee performance and later leader performance—neither initially nor over time, which is consistent with the performance requirements perspective. We, thus, caution against the (sole) application of meritocratic promotion principles.

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“…As a consequence, there is an extensive literature regarding the aspects of specialization, which in certain occasions can be utilized by various scientific fields and which encapsulates different aspects of the specialization effect, in relation to both financial as well as productivity matters, by proposing respectively various models which embrace or deny specialization. Accordingly, researches that focus on the specializing division of labor inside the marriage (Leahey, 2006;Lee & Ono, 2008); the impact of specialization on productivity ratio, as well as on the employees' burn-out effect (Hsieh & Chao, 2004), but also in the effective-ness is certain sport areas, such as the penalty kicking in soccer (Baumann et al, 2011) constitute typical examples of the multiple functional facets of specialization.…”

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Specialization as a Personality Trait and Tendency: Introducing an Instrument of Measuring the Specialization Degree. Part 1

Vrachas¹,

Leontakianakos²

2015

PSYCH

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Specialization constitutes a phenomenon which has been extensively researched in the framework both of the economic science-and its various structural cognitive fields-and also of the science of Biology. However, equivalent systematic attempt in evaluating the possible correlations and consequences of specialization in reference to multiple psycho-cognitive aspects of the individual's personality is not observable from the point of view of psychological science. Objective of the current study is the introduction of a theoretical model of specialization as a dynamic variable, as a trend, and from that stand point to evaluate a person's specialization degree in relation to other parameters of its psycho-cognitive being. In order to test the validity of the conception of specialization as a measurable factor, the Specialization Questionnaire (S.Q.) is created and introduced. More specifically, the S.Q. is aiming, on the one hand, at quantifying the degree of professional specialization and, on the other hand, at investigating the possible correlation between professional specialization and the tendency to seek for, respectively, specialized stimuli in other aspects of life, such as the personal-free time and the interpersonal relations.

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General Ability and Specialization: Evidence From Penalty Kicks in Soccer

Cited by 32 publications

References 10 publications

Laterality frequency, team familiarity, and game experience affect kicking-foot identification in Australian football players

Laterality frequency, team familiarity, and game experience affect kicking-foot identification in Australian football players

High Performers = Better Leaders? Probing the Validity of Performance-based Promotion to Fill Leader Positions

Specialization as a Personality Trait and Tendency: Introducing an Instrument of Measuring the Specialization Degree. Part 1

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