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PUBLICATIONS

The following are a list of HPL publications. You can click on the citations below to view PDFs of published papers.

For pre-prints of in press work, please email Sian Beilock at beilock@uchicago.edu.

In Press

Beilock, S. L., Lyons, I. M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (in press). Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Beilock, S. L. (in press). Grounding cognition in action: Expertise, comprehension, and judgment. Motion and Cognition. In M. Raab & J. Johnson (Eds.). Elsevier Press.

Beilock, S. L., Bertenthal, B. I., Hoerger, M., & Carr, T. H. (in press). When does haste make waste? Expertise, speed vs. accuracy instructions, and the tools of the trade. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Beilock, S. L. & Lyons, I. M. (in press). Expertise and the mental simulation of action. In K. Markman, B. Klein, and J. Suhr (Eds.), The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation. Psychology Press.

Beilock, S. L. (in press). Math performance in stressful situations. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

2008

Jackson, R., & Beilock, S. L. (2008). Attention and performance. In D. Farrow, J. Baker, and C. MacMahon (Eds.), Developing elite sports performers: Lessons from theory and practice. (pp.104-118). Routledge. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., & Gonso, S. (2008). Putting in the mind vs. putting on the green: Expertise, performance time, and the linking of imagery and action. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 61, 920-932. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L. (2008). Beyond the playing field: Sports psychology meets embodied cognition. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 1, 19-30. (pdf)

DeCaro, M. S., Thomas, R., & Beilock, S. L. (2008). Working memory capacity and category learning: Sometimes less is more. Cognition, 107, 284-294. (pdf)

2007

Sibley, B. A. & Beilock, S. L. (2007). Exercise and working memory: An individual differences investigation. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 29, 783-791. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., & DeCaro, M. S. (2007). From poor performance to success under stress: Working memory, strategy selection, and mathematical problem solving under pressure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 33, 983-998. (pdf)

Gray, R., Beilock, S. L., & Carr, T. H. (2007). “As soon as the bat met the ball, I knew it was gone”: Outcome prediction, hindsight bias, and the representation and control of action in novice and expert baseball players. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 669-675. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L. (2007). Choking under pressure. In R. Baumeister and K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Sage Publications. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L. (2007). Understanding skilled performance: Memory, attention, and “choking under pressure.” In Morris, Terry, and Gordon (Eds.), Sport & Exercise Psychology: International Perspectives (pp. 153-166).Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology. (pdf)

DeCaro, M. S., & Wieth, M., & Beilock, S. L. (2007). Methodologies for examining problem solving success and failure. Methods, 42, 58-67. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., Rydell, R. J., & McConnell, A. R. (2007). Stereotype threat and working memory: Mechanisms, alleviation, and spill over. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 256-276. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., & Gray, R. (2007). Why do athletes “choke” under pressure? In G. Tenenbaum and R.C. Eklund (Eds.), Handbook of sport psychology, 3rd Ed. (pp. 425-444). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L. & Holt, L. E. (2007). Embodied preference judgments: Can likeability be driven by the motor system? Psychological Science, 18, 51-57. (pdf)

2006

Holt, L. E. & Beilock, S. L. (2006). Expertise and its embodiment: Examining the impact of sensorimotor skill expertise on the representation of action-related text. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 694-701. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., & Feltz, D. L. (2006). Self efficacy and expertise. In N. Hagemann, M. Tietjens, & B. Strauss (Eds.), The psychology of peak performance in sports (pp. 156-174). Götteingen, Germany: Hogrefe Publishers.

Beilock, S. L., Jellison, W. A., Rydell, R. J., McConnell, A. R., & Carr, T. H. (2006). On the causal mechanisms of stereotype threat: Can skills that don't rely heavily on working memory still be threatened? Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1059-1071. (pdf)

2005

Beilock, S. L. & Carr, T. H. (2005). When high-powered people fail: Working memory and "choking under pressure" in math. Psychological Science, 16, 101-105. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L. (2005). Choking under pressure. In R. M. Bartlett, C. Gratton, and C. Rolf (Eds.), Encyclopedia of international sports studies (pp. 258-359; see also 1462-1463). Routledge.

Beilock, S. L. (2005). Controlled and automatic processing. In R. M. Bartlett, C. Gratton, and C. Rolf (Eds.), Encyclopedia of international sports studies (pp. 209-210). Routledge.

2004

Beilock, S. L., & Carr, T. H. (2004). From novice to expert performance: Attention, memory, and the control of complex sensorimotor skills. In A. M. Williams, N. J. Hodges, M. A. Scott, & M. L. J. Court (Eds.), Skill acquisition in sport: Research, theory and practice (pp. 309-328). Routledge. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L. & McConnell, A. R. (2004). Stereotype threat and sport: Can athletic performance be threatened? Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 26, 597-609. (pdf)

Beilock, S.L., Bertenthal, B.I., McCoy, A.M. & Carr, T.H. (2004). Haste does not always make waste: Expertise, direction of attention and speed versus accuracy in performing sensorimotor skills. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 373-379. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., Kulp, C. A., Holt, L. E., & Carr, T. H. (2004). More on the fragility of performance: Choking under pressure in mathematical problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 584-600. (pdf)

2003

Beilock, S. L., Wierenga, S. A., & Carr, T. H. (2003). Memory and expertise: What do experienced athletes remember? In J. L. Starkes and K. A. Ericsson (Eds.), Expert performance in sports: Advances in research on sport expertise (pp. 295-320). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. (pdf)

2002

Beilock, S. L., Wierenga, S. A., & Carr, T. H. (2002). Expertise, attention, and memory in sensorimotor skill execution: Impact of novel task constraints on dual-task performance and episodic memory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 55, 1211-1240. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., Carr, T. H., MacMahon, C., & Starkes, J. L. (2002). When paying attention becomes counterproductive: Impact of divided versus skill-focused attention on novice and experienced performance of sensorimotor skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8, 6-16. (pdf)

2001

Beilock, S. L., & Carr, T. H. (2001). On the fragility of skilled performance: What governs choking under pressure? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 701-725. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., Afremow, J. A., Rabe, A. L., & Carr, T. H. (2001). “Don’t miss!” The debilitating effects of suppressive imagery on golf putting performance. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, 200-221. (pdf)

Beilock, S. L., Feltz, D. L., & Pivarnik, J. M. (2001). Training patterns of athletes during pregnancy and postpartum. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 72, 39-46. (pdf)


 

Principal Investigator:

Sian L. Beilock, Ph.D

beilock@uchicago.edu

Lab Contact:

Katie Foster, Lab Manager

uofchpl@gmail.com

773.834.4701