title: The effect of perceived streakiness on the shot-taking behaviour of basketball players.
abstract: We examine behavioural changes of basketball players arising from the hot-hand belief and use data of 1216 National Basketball Association games to measure the effect of cold and hot streaks on three proxies of shot difficulty. We find that the more consecutive shots players make (miss), the more difficult (easier) shots become along the three dimensions. Furthermore, most players' performance seems to improve during hot streaks because they attempt more difficult shots while no significant decrease in shooting accuracy takes place. This might explain why most previous studies could not find empirical evidence for the hot-hand belief in basketball when considering in-game field goal shooting.
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Psychology , German Sport University , Cologne , Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Csapo
authors.affiliation: b Department of Business Administration, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva , Israel.|c The Zinman College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences , Wingate Institute , Israel.
authors.forename: Simcha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Avugos
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Psychology , German Sport University , Cologne , Germany.|d School of Applied Science , London South Bank University , London , UK.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raab
authors.affiliation: b Department of Business Administration, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer-Sheva , Israel.|c The Zinman College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences , Wingate Institute , Israel.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bar-Eli
mesh_terms: D054874:Athletic Performance; D001490:Basketball / Q000523:psychology*; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception
keywords: Hot hand; basketball; behavioural; decision-making