Goal or gold: overlapping reward processes in soccer players upon scoring and winning money.

Social rewards are important incentives for human behavior. This is especially true in team sports such as the most popular one worldwide: soccer. We investigated reward processing upon scoring a soccer goal in a standard two-versus-one situation and in comparison to winning in a monetary incentive...

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Main Authors: Alexander Niklas Häusler, Benjamin Becker, Marcel Bartling, Bernd Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4398371?pdf=render