Abstract Regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1997) has received growing attention in
organizational psychology, necessitating a quantitative review that synthesizes its effects on …

Background Psychological interventions are commonly applied in sports to help athletes
enhance their performance, but the effect psychological interventions have on actual …

Male entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female
counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested …

Creativity is an essential component of sport performance. The player who can make
decisions that are both unexpected–and therefore less easily predicted by his/her opponent …

Regulatory focus theory was the child of selfdiscrepancy theory and the parent of regulatory
fit theory. As the child of self-discrepancy theory, it distinguishes between self-regulation in …

The objective of this paper is to review current literature on visual attentional processes in
the area of sport expertise. Based on recent findings in neuroscience, attention can be …

Many previous studies have identified that flow is a constructive construct for explaining
consumer behaviors in the context of computer-mediated environments. Success in …

According to H iggins, the regulatory focus theory states that in terms of motivational
information processing, it makes a difference whether people have a promotion or …

Medical Education 2012: 46: 593–603 Objectives Regulatory focus theory posits the
existence of two systems of self‐regulation underlying human motivation: promotion focus …

Glossary Game analysis Game analysis software allows study of the individual tactical
behavior of the players (eg, feints in oneon-one-situations), the tactical interactions of a …