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We explain the referees’ behavior both by using the representativeness heuristic and by examining closely the referees’ interests and observing that to some extent even their officiating mistakes may be rational.
In the current observational study, we aimed to examine the questionable use of the diving act in the penalty area in soccer.
Citations of this work Promoting Fairness in Sport through Performance-enhancing Substances: An Argument for Why Sport Referees Ought to ‘Be on Drugs’. Thomas Søbirk Petersen & Francisco Javier Lopez Frias - 2020 - Sp...
In this study, we turned to basketball to investigate referees’ decisions in offensive foul situations, to determine whether basketball referees are prone to various biases that have been reported by previous literatu...
Deception and decision making in professional basketball: Is it beneficial to flop? To dive or not to dive in the penalty area? The questionable art of deception in soccer. Choking or...
We analyzed the referees’ decisions in 250 instances of collisions between an attacking player and a defender. In these collisions the defender fell, and potentially an offensive foul could be called.
We suggest that both rational reasons and biased decision making lead players to frequently act against their team's interest by falling. Referees almost never call an offensive foul if the player remained on his feet...
In this study, the three-person officiating (3PO) principle was employed as an innovative method to examine decision-making (DM) processes among basketball referees. We aimed at exploring whether the ranking, experien...
Authors: Sabag, Eran 1 ; Lidor, Ronnie 1 ; Morgulev, Elia 1 ; Arnon, Michal 1 ; Azar, Ofer 2 ; Bar-Eli, Michael 1 ; Source: International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Volume 18, Number 3, 3 May 2020, pp. ...
השתתפות בכנסים 1. Sabag, E., Lidor, R., Bar-Eli, M., & Azar, Ofer. The relationships between early conditions and environmental settings and soccer referee’s decisions in the vi g and contact between players in the pe...
