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The Choke Chamber: In Which I Miss A Putt and Fork Over a Fiver

Posted on September 30, 2010 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Sian Beilock, the author of “Choke” whose work I wrote about in a feature-length post published a few days ago, knows a lot of ways to make a person fail under pressure. Below, in a slightly tweaked version of an alternative opening for the feature, one I eventually left on the cutting-room floor for structural […]

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The Tight Collar: The New Science of Choking Under Pressure

Posted on September 27, 2010 by David Dobbs · 6 Comments

The Collar Late in May 2008, perched in superb seats a few rows behind home plate at Chicago’s Cellular Field, I took in a White Sox-Indians game with Sian Beilock, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago who studies what is surely, other than serious injury, the most feared catastrophe in sports: the […]

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