Authors: Wühr, Peter
Fasold, Frowin
Memmert, Daniel
Title: The impact of team preferences on soccer offside judgments in laypersons
Other Titles: a quasi-experimental study
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: The present study uses a quasi-experimental design to investigate the impact of team preferences on the accuracy of offside judgments. In Experiments 1 and 2, supporters of two German soccer clubs (i.e., Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04) judged offsides in artificial scenes from a match between the clubs. We expected that supporters of both clubs would less frequently report the offside position of a forward from the preferred team. The results of Experiment 1 partly confirmed the predictions. Both groups reported the offside position of a yellow forward less frequently than that of a blue forward, and this effect was much larger for supporters of Borussia Dortmund than for supporters of Schalke 04. The difference between groups could be attributed to team preferences. The weaker effect of team preference in supporters of Schalke 04 was attributed to an unexpected perceptual effect that increased the accuracy of offside judgments for blue forwards in both groups. Experiments 2 and 3 showed the presumed effect of team preferences and the perceptual effect, respectively, in isolation. In summary, the results of our experiments provide evidence for (a) an effect of team preferences and (b) an effect of shirt–background contrast on offside judgments in soccer.
Subject Headings: Football
Offside rule
Soccer
Team preference
Wishful seeing
Subject Headings (RSWK): Fußball
Abseits
Wunschdenken
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/40262
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-22135
Issue Date: 2020-10-23
Rights link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Appears in Collections:Institut für Psychologie

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