Does Pressure Affect Performance? An Evaluation of the Yerkes–Dodson Hypothesis with NCAA Basketball Performance and a Continuous Measure of Pressure to Win
Published online on September 10, 2025
Abstract
American Behavioral Scientist, Ahead of Print.
In a seminal article, Yerkes and Dodson report some suggestive evidence that increasing external stimulus may raise performance to a peak but that further stimuli deceases performance. However, evidence for the Yerkes–Dodson conjecture outside of ...
In a seminal article, Yerkes and Dodson report some suggestive evidence that increasing external stimulus may raise performance to a peak but that further stimuli deceases performance. However, evidence for the Yerkes–Dodson conjecture outside of ...