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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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How the curveball fools you: Illusion of the Year

Posted on September 17, 2010 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

The good curves do that: Even when you have that millisecond of curveball detection beforehand, they still seem to take a bend sharply and suddenly late in their path, as if some invisible hand gave them an extra tap. Here’s how they (appear to) do that.

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