Competition MentalityEvidence & Dosage
Arousal regulation, visualization, routines under pressure.
Evidence at a glance
- Total studies
- 225
- With abstract
- 39
- Meta / Systematic / RCT
- 0
- Highly cited
- 0
- Publication years
- 1970–2026
Competition Mentality in the context of Performance
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The impact of precompetition state on athletic performance among track and field athletes using machine learning.
Frontiers in physiology2025E2 influential citationsThis study aims to compare the differences in the precompetition status (nutritional, physiological, biochemical, psychological, and sleep statuses) among college track and field athletes with different competition performances and to…
The impact of Mood on Sports Flow State in football players: a chain mediating model of Psychological Resilience and Achievement Motivation in Competition.
Frontiers in psychology20252 influential citations<h4>Objectives</h4>To explore the relationship between Mood and Sport Flow State in football players, and to clarify the mediating roles of Psychological Resilience and Achievement Motivation in Competition.<h4>Methods</h4>Convenience…
Effect of Physical Exercise on Esports Performance in First-Person Shooter Gamers: A Six-Week Randomized Controlled Trial.
Sports medicine - open2025n=83E1 influential citationsEsports has gained recognition as an official sport by multiple countries and organizations, featuring in international events like the Asian Games. Despite its growing prominence as a competitive sport, research on esports performance…
Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain
European Journal of Social Psychology2018In this introduction to the EJSP Special Issue on conspiracy theories as a social psychological phenomenon, we describe how this emerging research domain has developed over the past decade and distill four basic principles that…
The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations
AI & Society2021In this article, we analyse the role that artificial intelligence (AI) could play, and is playing, to combat global climate change. We identify two crucial opportunities that AI offers in this domain: it can help improve and expand current…
A Brain Mechanism for Facilitation of Insight by Positive Affect
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience2008n=79Previous research has shown that people solve insight or creative problems better when in a positive mood (assessed or induced), although the precise mechanisms and neural substrates of this facilitation remain unclear. We assessed mood…
Emotional Dynamics in the Age of Misinformation
PLoS ONE2015According to the World Economic Forum, the diffusion of unsubstantiated rumors on online social media is one of the main threats for our society. The disintermediated paradigm of content production and consumption on online social media…
Exposure to intergroup conspiracy theories promotes prejudice which spreads across groups
British Journal of Psychology2019n=173This research experimentally examined the effects of exposure to intergroup conspiracy theories on prejudice and discrimination. Study 1 ( N = 166) demonstrated that exposure to conspiracy theories concerning immigrants to Britain from the…
Effect of Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism on Entrepreneurial Intention—The Mediating of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy
Frontiers in Psychology2019The driving factors behind the exploration and search for entrepreneurial intention (EI) are critical to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial practice. To reveal in depth the influence of personality traits on EI, our study…
Conspiracy theories as quasi-religious mentality: an integrated account from cognitive science, social representations theory, and frame theory
Frontiers in Psychology2013Conspiracy theories (CTs) can take many forms and vary widely in popularity, the intensity with which they are believed and their effects on individual and collective behavior. An integrated account of CTs thus needs to explain how they…
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