Keep your fingers crossed! How superstition improves performance
The 2010 paper reported that people told they were using a lucky golf ball made 65 per cent of putts against 48 per cent for people told the ball was ordinary, as described in the replication paper.
The 2010 paper reported that people told they were using a lucky golf ball made 65 per cent of putts against 48 per cent for people told the ball was ordinary, as described in the replication paper.
Written from the secondary report read 2026-11-03 (the replication paper's account).
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Damisch, L., Stoberock, B., & Mussweiler, T. (2010). Keep your fingers crossed! How superstition improves performance. Psychological Science, 21(7), 1014-1020. doi:10.1177/0956797610372631 https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610372631