Predicting soccer matches: A reassessment of the benefit of unconscious thinking
Journal Title: Judgment and Decision Making - Year 2010, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
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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Claudia González-Vallejo and Nathaniel Phillips
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