Can creative role models prime creativity in soccer players?

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Abstract

Objectives
The goal of the present study was to test if priming soccer players with certain players that are known for extraordinary creativity can lead to enhanced creativity in a computer-based decision-making task.

Design
Between-subject experimental designs were implemented.

Method
Using a sequential priming procedure amateur soccer players were primed with either creative (Lionel Messi; Thiago Alcántara) or uncreative soccer players (Per Mertesacker; John Terry) and subsequently performed a soccer decision-making task. The priming stimuli were changed from Experiment 1 (N = 60) to Experiment 2 (N = 60), and the priming procedure was changed in Experiment 3 (N = 60).

Results
All three experiments revealed large (d = 0.91 in Experiment 1 and d = 1.75 in Experiment 2) to moderate effects (Experiment 3; d = 0.59) of priming on creative decision making in soccer.

Conclusion
Domain-specific creative thinking can be influenced by priming amateur soccer players with soccer stars that are known to differ in terms of creativity. Both the practical implications of the findings for soccer and the methodological implications for future priming research in sport are critically discussed.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftPsychology of Sport and Exercise
Jahrgang37
AusgabenummerJuly
Seiten (von - bis)1-9
Seitenumfang9
ISSN1469-0292
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 07.2018

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