Predicting soccer matches: A reassessment of the benefit of unconscious thinking

We evaluate Dijksterhuis, Bos, van der Leij, & van Baaren (2009), Psychological Science, on the benefit of unconscious thinking in predicting the outcomes of soccer matches. We conclude that the evidence that unconscious thinking helps experts to make better predictions is tenuous both from theoretical and statistical perspectives.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Gonzalez-Vallejo, Claudia ; Phillips, Nathaniel
Published in:	Judgment and Decision Making. - Society for Judgment and Decision Making, ISSN 1930-2975. - Vol. 5.2010, 3, p. 200-206
Publisher:	Society for Judgment and Decision Making
Subject:	unconscious thinking \| expertise \| predictive judgments

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Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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