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Creative and Intuitive Decision-Making Processes: A Comparison of Brazilian and German Soccer Coaches and Players

  • Purpose: The concepts of creativity and intuition have been well studied in isolation, but less is known about their distinctive contributions to option generation in decision making. Method: We examined the relation between creative and intuitive decision making in two studies-one involving coaches and one involving soccer players-using video footage of real soccer matches. Additionally, we analyzed whether this relation is culture generic or culture specific by conducting matched cross-cultural studies in a European and a South American country. Results: In Study 1, results indicate a conceptual overlap of creativity and intuition for Brazilian and German soccer coaches. Furthermore, coaches did not differ in their evaluation of creative and intuitive actions of players of both cultures. In Study 2, we found that for both subsamples the total number of generated options was positively correlated with the quality of the first and the final option and that the quality of players' first (intuitive) option was higher than that ofPurpose: The concepts of creativity and intuition have been well studied in isolation, but less is known about their distinctive contributions to option generation in decision making. Method: We examined the relation between creative and intuitive decision making in two studies-one involving coaches and one involving soccer players-using video footage of real soccer matches. Additionally, we analyzed whether this relation is culture generic or culture specific by conducting matched cross-cultural studies in a European and a South American country. Results: In Study 1, results indicate a conceptual overlap of creativity and intuition for Brazilian and German soccer coaches. Furthermore, coaches did not differ in their evaluation of creative and intuitive actions of players of both cultures. In Study 2, we found that for both subsamples the total number of generated options was positively correlated with the quality of the first and the final option and that the quality of players' first (intuitive) option was higher than that of options generated later. Moreover, results indicate a positive correlation between a player's creativity score and the quality of the first generated option for the whole sample. Conclusion: Overall, our findings provide meaningful information regarding athletes' and coaches' option-generation processes in decision making in complex team sports.show moreshow less

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Author details:Stefanie Klatt, Benjamin Noel, Lisa Musculus, Karsten WernerGND, Sylvain LabordeORCiD, Mariana Calabria Lopes, Pablo J. Greco, Daniel Memmert, Markus Raab
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2019.1642994
ISSN:0270-1367
ISSN:2168-3824
Pubmed ID:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31478798
Title of parent work (English):Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Publisher:Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publishing:Abingdon
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2019
Publication year:2019
Release date:2020/11/25
Tag:Choice; cognitive process; evaluation; soccer
Volume:90
Issue:4
Number of pages:15
First page:651
Last Page:665
Funding institution:Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)CAPES; German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
Organizational units:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften
DDC classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Peer review:Referiert
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