title: Can Achievement Goals be Primed in Competitive Tasks?
abstract: This study examined whether achievement goal priming effects would be observed within an overtly competitive setting. Male soccer players (N = 66) volunteered to participate in a soccer penalty-kick taking competition during which they took 20 penalty-kicks on 2 occasions. Following a pretest, participants were allocated to 1 of 5 priming conditions. Immediately prior to the posttest, participants in the priming conditions were asked to complete what was presented as an ostensibly unrelated task that took the form of either a computer task (subliminal priming) or wordsearch task (supraliminal priming). Results revealed that priming had no significant influence on performance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, UK.
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Greenlees
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, UK.
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Figgins
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, UK.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kearney
keywords: achievement goals; penalty-kicks; priming