The features and determinants of human decision making, especially under competitive
environments, have been a central theme of research in economics and psychology alike …

This study examines the link between psychological momentum and performance. In
sporting settings, the notion that prior performance may influence future outcomes is a …

This study examines how past performance moderates the effect of the size of the prize on
tournament self-selection. We identify two types of trajectories that play simultaneous and …

This study draws upon psychological models of momentum to test for the existence of
characteristics such as the hot hand and whether such characteristics predict better or worse …

This paper examines the existence of a hot hand and whether performing in front of a
supportive audience creates a psychological pressure, which may impair performance …

We study rank-order tournaments to examine how the influence of the opportunity/threat of
gaining/losing rank on competitive risk taking is moderated by the ability of an actor vis-à-vis …

In this paper, we examine the “hot hand”(and “cold hand”) phenomenon as it relates to the
PGA Tour using data from the 2013-4 PGA Tour season. For this study, we define “hot hand” …

Economic agents often irrationally base their decision-making on irrelevant information. This
research analyzes whether men and women react to futile information about past outcomes …

The existence of a hot hand in individual athletes' performance in soccer under fantasy
sports rules is investigated in this paper. It is also investigated whether fantasy sports users …

This research paper investigates the existence of the Hot Hand phenomenon by leveraging
a unique dataset, which implicitly addresses many of the issues prevalent in the existing …