Reporting bias, not external focus: A robust Bayesian meta-analysis and systematic review of the external focus of attention literature.

IF 17.3 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY
Brad McKay, Abbey E Corson, Jeswende Seedu, Celeste S De Faveri, Hibaa Hasan, Kristen Arnold, Faith C Adams, Michael J Carter
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Evidence has ostensibly been accumulating over the past 2 decades suggesting that an external focus on the intended movement effect (e.g., on the golf club during a swing) is superior to an internal focus on body movements (e.g., on your arms during a swing) for skill acquisition. Seven previous meta-studies have all reported evidence of external focus superiority. The most comprehensive of these concluded that an external focus enhances motor skill retention, transfer, and performance and leads to reduced eletromyographic activity during performance and that more distal external foci are superior to proximal external foci for performance. Here, we reanalyzed these data using robust Bayesian meta-analyses that included several plausible models of publication bias. We found moderate to strong evidence of publication bias for all analyses. After correcting for publication bias, estimated mean effects were negligible: g = 0.01 (performance), g = 0.15 (retention), g = 0.09 (transfer), g = 0.06 (electromyography), and g = -0.01 (distance effect). Bayes factors indicated data favored the null for each analysis, ranging from BF01 = 1.3 (retention) to 5.75 (performance). We found clear evidence of heterogeneity in each analysis, suggesting the impact of attentional focus depends on yet unknown contextual factors. Our results contradict the existing consensus that an external focus is always more effective than an internal focus. Instead, focus of attention appears to have a variety of effects that we cannot account for, and, on average, those effects are small to nil. These results parallel previous metascience suggesting publication bias has obfuscated the motor learning literature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

报告偏差,而非外部关注:外部注意力集中文献的稳健贝叶斯荟萃分析和系统回顾。
表面上看,过去二十年来不断积累的证据表明,在技能习得方面,外部关注预期动作效果(如挥杆时关注高尔夫球杆)优于内部关注身体动作(如挥杆时关注手臂)。之前的七项元研究都报告了外部关注优于内部关注的证据。其中最全面的一项研究得出结论:外部聚焦能增强运动技能的保持、转移和表现,并能减少表现过程中的肌电图活动,而且较远的外部聚焦在表现方面优于较近的外部聚焦。在此,我们使用稳健的贝叶斯荟萃分析重新分析了这些数据,其中包括几种可信的发表偏倚模型。我们在所有分析中都发现了中度到强烈的发表偏倚证据。校正发表偏倚后,估计的平均效应可忽略不计:g = 0.01(表现)、g = 0.15(保持)、g = 0.09(转移)、g = 0.06(肌电图)和 g = -0.01(距离效应)。贝叶斯因子表明,每项分析的数据都倾向于空值,从 BF01 = 1.3(保持)到 5.75(表现)不等。我们在每项分析中都发现了明显的异质性证据,这表明注意力集中的影响取决于未知的情境因素。我们的研究结果与现有的共识相矛盾,即外部注意力集中总是比内部注意力集中更有效。相反,注意力集中似乎会产生我们无法解释的各种影响,而且平均而言,这些影响很小甚至为零。这些结果与之前的元科学相似,表明出版偏见混淆了运动学习文献。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
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Psychological bulletin
Psychological bulletin 医学-心理学
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33.60
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期刊介绍: Psychological Bulletin publishes syntheses of research in scientific psychology. Research syntheses seek to summarize past research by drawing overall conclusions from many separate investigations that address related or identical hypotheses. A research synthesis typically presents the authors' assessments: -of the state of knowledge concerning the relations of interest; -of critical assessments of the strengths and weaknesses in past research; -of important issues that research has left unresolved, thereby directing future research so it can yield a maximum amount of new information.
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