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Post by daniel on Sept 18, 2017 22:53:21 GMT
The placebo effect could indeed explain the difference in their performance, although other factors may also have been at play. Having interpreted their favorable game and good luck as being connected to the filth of their socks, the first young athlete may have possessed a certain higher level of confidence in knowing that he/she carried this extra aid into their second game. Confidence plays a significant and major role in sports, and this may have translated into a better performance. The second athlete may have instead been feeling frustrated and anxious on having lost what they believed allowed him/her to perform as well as they did in the first game. The interpretation of clean socks meant to the second athlete that he/she could not perform as well, or was in some way handicapped, this second game. The accompanied anxiety itself though, may have been what was to blame for the second athlete’s poor performance, and not the clean socks. <o:p></o:p>
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