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The impact of video speed on the decision-making process of sports officials

Overview of attention for article published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, June 2018
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Title
The impact of video speed on the decision-making process of sports officials
Published in
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s41235-018-0105-8
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Authors

Jochim Spitz, Pieter Moors, Johan Wagemans, Werner F. Helsen

Abstract

There is an increasing trend in association football (soccer) to assist referees in their decision-making with video technology. For decisions such as whether a goal has been scored or which player actually committed a foul, video technology can provide more objective information and be valuable to increase decisional accuracy. It is unclear, however, to what extent video replays can aid referee decisions in the case of foul-play situations in which the decision is typically more ambiguous. In this study, we specifically evaluated the impact of slow-motion replays on decision-making by referees. To this end, elite referees of five different countries (n = 88) evaluated 60 different foul-play situations taken from international matches, replayed in either real time or slow motion. Our results revealed that referees penalized situations more severely in slow motion compared to real time (e.g. red card with a yellow card reference decision). Our results provide initial evidence that video replay speed can have an important impact on the disciplinary decision given by the referee in case of foul play. The study also provides a real-life test-case for theories and insights regarding causality perception.

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Unknown 87 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 18%
Student > Master 9 10%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Lecturer 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 28 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 22 25%
Psychology 7 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 7%
Social Sciences 6 7%
Computer Science 3 3%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 30 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 463. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 September 2023.
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#57,546
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Outputs from Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
#12
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#1,315
of 334,679 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
#2
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