{"id":15489,"date":"2023-10-18T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:43:11","slug":"elizabethtown-college-psychology-professor-publishes-research-on-bias-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/elizabethtown-college-psychology-professor-publishes-research-on-bias-in-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Psychology Professor Publishes Research on Bias in Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Professor of Psychology, Dr. Michael Roy recently published his co-authored research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1469029223001619?via%3Dihub\">\u201cNaturalness Bias in Sport\u201d in the Journal of Sport and Exercise.<\/a> Roy worked with several co-authors, including Psychology alumna Emily Lamison \u201921 who served as Roy&#8217;s lab coordinator on the project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI believe that I am the one who benefits the most from working with students on these projects,\u201d Roy said. \u201cThey all bring a new energy to every project that helps see it through.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roy researched naturalness bias \u2014 the tendency to prefer people who have natural talent, as opposed to acquiring their talent through work or effort \u2014 in terms of athletic ability. The study featured participants that included soccer coaches, athletes, fans, and non-fans, who read about athletes either described as being a natural or a striver. After watching a video of the athlete taking part in practice drills, participants rated athletes on a likelihood of success, athletic skill, mental strength, and physiological ability.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the study indicated that the naturalness bias only shows up for skills that are hard to judge or not readily visible after viewing a single performance, such as mental toughness.<\/p>\n<p>Roy began researching naturalness bias several years ago, and his previous studies have found that naturalness bias did not apply to journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Professor of Psychology, Dr. Michael Roy recently published his co-authored research, \u201cNaturalness Bias in Sport\u201d in the Journal of Sport and Exercise. Roy worked with several co-authors, including Psychology alumna Emily Lamison \u201921 who served as Roy&#8217;s lab coordinator on the project. \u201cI believe that I am the one who benefits the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":15491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[197,1935,1350,1517,1934,1941,182,1942,1937,1938,1936,691,176,1939,1940],"class_list":["post-15489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-elizabethtown-college-psychology","tag-etown","tag-etown-college","tag-etown-psych","tag-mental-toughness","tag-michael-roy","tag-natural-talent","tag-naturalness-bias","tag-naturalness-bias-in-sport","tag-psych","tag-psychology","tag-soccer","tag-sport-and-exercise","tag-sports-psychology","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15663,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions\/15663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}