Peers’ performance feedback: Evidence from soccer penalty shootouts

IF 1.4 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2025.102445

David Boto-García , Alessandro Bucciol

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Abstract

This paper examines the role of peers’ performance feedback on individual productivity in competitive environments. We specifically study the link between individual performance and the past performance of teammates and opposing teams. We use a dataset on all the penalty kicks in knockout stages of World Cup and European Cup competitions in male soccer from 1976 to 2024. We find that the probability of scoring a penalty kick is 17.9 percentage points lower after the opponent team scored a kick but does not change with the outcome of a teammate’s penalty kick. Our evidence supports the notion that individuals’ underperformance when feeling pressure (“choking under pressure”) is primarily driven by feedback on competitors’ performance, rather than by teammates’ performance.

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同伴的表现反馈：来自足球点球大战的证据

本文考察了竞争环境中同伴绩效反馈对个体生产力的作用。我们专门研究个人表现与队友和对手球队过去表现之间的联系。我们使用了1976年至2024年世界杯和欧洲杯男足淘汰赛阶段所有点球的数据集。我们发现，在对手队罚进点球后，罚进点球的概率降低了17.9个百分点，但不随队友罚进点球的结果而变化。我们的证据支持这样一种观点，即个人在感到压力时表现不佳（“在压力下窒息”）主要是由对竞争对手表现的反馈所驱动的，而不是由队友的表现所驱动的。

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

113

审稿时长

83 days

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