Open AccessEffects of Deception on Exercise Performance
Author(s) -
Mark R. Stone,
Kevin Thomas,
Mick Wilkinson,
Andrew M. Jones,
Alan St Clair Gibson,
Kevin Thompson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.703
H-Index - 224
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0b013e318232cf77
Subject(s) - deception , psychology , social psychology
The aim of this study was to investigate whether it was possible to reduce the time taken to complete a 4000-m cycling time trial by misleading participants into believing they were racing against a previous trial, when, in fact, the power output was 2% greater.
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