Can achievement goals Be primed in competitive tasks?

Iain Greenlees, Sean Figgins, Philip Kearney

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Abstract

This study examined whether achievement goal priming effects would be observed within an overtly competitive setting. Male soccer players (N = 66) volunteered to participate in a soccer penalty-kick taking competition during which they took 20 penalty-kicks on 2 occasions. Following a pretest, participants were allocated to 1 of 5 priming conditions. Immediately prior to the posttest, participants in the priming conditions were asked to complete what was presented as an ostensibly unrelated task that took the form of either a computer task (subliminal priming) or wordsearch task (supraliminal priming). Results revealed that priming had no significant influence on performance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)245-250
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Human Kinetics
Volume40
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2014

Keywords

  • Achievement goals
  • Penalty-kicks
  • Priming

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