TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - The right side? Under time pressure, approach motivation leads to right-oriented bias
JO  - Psychological science
A1  - Roskes, Marieke
A1  - Sligte, Daniel
A1  - Shalvi, Shaul
A1  - De Dreu, Carsten K. W.
SP  - 1403
EP  - 1407
VL  - 22
IS  - 11
N2  - Approach motivation, a focus on achieving positive outcomes, is related to relative left-hemispheric brain activation, which translates to a variety of right-oriented behavioral biases. In two studies, we found that approach-motivated individuals display a right-oriented bias, but only when they are forced to act quickly. In a task in which they had to divide lines into two equal parts, approach-motivated individuals bisected the line at a point farther to the right than avoidance-motivated individuals did, but only when they worked under high time pressure. In our analysis of all Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup penalty shoot-outs, we found that goalkeepers were two times more likely to dive to the right than to the left when their team was behind, a situation that we conjecture induces approach motivation. Because penalty takers shot toward the two sides of the goal equally often, the goalkeepers' right-oriented bias was dysfunctional, allowing more goals to be scored. Directional biases may facilitate group coordination but prove maladaptive in individual settings and interpersonal competition.    Keywords: Soccer<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0956-7976
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611418677
ID  - ref1
ER  -