Browsing Brage NIH by Author "Jordet, Geir"
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Avoidance motivation and choking under pressure in soccer penalty shootouts
Jordet, Geir; Hartman, Esther (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between shot valence, avoidance behavior, and performance in soccer penalty shootouts. Video analyses were conducted with all penalty shootouts ever held in the ... -
Don't turn blind! The relationship between exploration before ball possession and on-ball performance in association football
McGuckian, Thomas B; Cole, Michael H; Jordet, Geir; Chalkley, Daniel; Pepping, Gert-Jan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Visual exploratory action – scanning movements expressed through left and right rotation of the head – allows perception of a surrounding environment and supports prospective actions. In the dynamically changing football ... -
Performing under pressure: what can we learn from football penalty shoot-outs?
Jordet, Geir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-08-22)In this paper, I outline a programme of research that has examined the antecedents of choking in sport through an analysis of successful and unsuccessful kicks in football penalty shoot-outs at the World Cup, the European ... -
Scanning, contextual factors, and association with performance in English Premier League footballers: An investigation across a season
Jordet, Geir; Aksum, Karl Marius; Pedersen, Daniel Nordheim; Walvekar, Anup; Trivedi, Arjav; McCall, Alan; Ivarsson, Andreas; Priestley, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Scanning in football (soccer) denotes an active head movement where a player’s face is temporarily directed away from the ball to gather information in preparation for subsequently engaging with the ball. The aim of this ... -
Self-regulation and performance level of elite and non-elite youth soccer players
Toering, Tynke T.; Elferink-Gemser, Marije T.; Jordet, Geir; Visscher, Chris (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-12)In learning and development, self-regulation can be described as the extent to which individuals are metacognitively, motivationally, and behaviourally proactive participants in their learning process (Zimmerman, 1989, ... -
Stress, coping, and emotions on the world stage: The experience of participating in a major soccer tournament penalty shootout
Jordet, Geir; Elferink-Gemser, Marije T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-12-27)This study was designed to capture the first-hand experiences of stressors, coping, and emotions that elite professional soccer players have during a major soccer penalty shootout. Eight players who each took part in an ... -
Temporal links to performing under pressure in international soccer penalty shootouts
Jordet, Geir; Hartman, Esther; Sigmundstad, Einar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-11)Objectives: This study examined the temporal characteristics of performing under pressure in a high-stakes real-world sport situation. Design: Behavior observation analyses were conducted of televised soccer games. Methods: ... -
What do football coaches want from sport science?
Brink, Michel S.; Kuyvenhoven, Jurian P; Toering, Tryntsje Tsjitske; Jordet, Geir; Frencken, Wouter G P (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Sport science can contribute to the body of knowledge that influences practice and performance. Despite this, knowledge transfer from sport science to football coaches needs further improvement. The present study’s purpose ... -
What do football players look at?: An eye-tracking analysis of the visual fixations of players in 11 v 11 elite football match play
Aksum, Karl Marius; Magnaguagno, Lukas; Bjørndal, Christian T.; Jordet, Geir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Current knowledge of gaze behavior in football has primarily originated from eye-tracking research in laboratory settings. Using eye-tracking with elite players in a real-world 11 v 11 football game, this exploratory case ... -
When superstars flop: public status and choking under pressure in international soccer penalty shootouts
Jordet, Geir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-04)The purpose of this study was to examine links between public status and performance in a real-world, high-pressure sport task. It was believed that high public status could negatively affect performance through added ... -
Why do English players fail in soccer penalty shootouts? A study of team status, self-regulation, and choking under pressure
Jordet, Geir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-01)I examine why players from some nations appear always to choke in major international soccer penalty shootouts. Based on a model on choking under pressure as a type of self-defeating behaviour (Baumeister, 1997), I ...