AUTHOR=Sors Fabrizio , Tomé Lourido David , Parisi Vittoria , Santoro Ilaria , Galmonte Alessandra , Agostini Tiziano , Murgia Mauro TITLE=Pressing Crowd Noise Impairs the Ability of Anxious Basketball Referees to Discriminate Fouls JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=10 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02380 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02380 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The decision-making processes of referees in sports are affected by many factors, including the pressure of spectators. While the home/visitor bias has been previously investigated, the role of crowd noise has been less studied. In the present study, we investigated how the crowd noise (calm vs. pressing) influence the decisions of basketball referees, when examining videos of potential fouls. In doing so, we also considered the level of competitive anxiety of referees (low vs. high anxiety), as factor potentially interacting with the pressure exerted by the spectators. A 2 × 2 ANOVA (Crowd noise x Anxiety) revealed a significant interaction [