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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Why "decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile" fails to score.

Lisa Musculus, Duarte Araújo, Elisa Bisagno, Henrik Gustafsson, Anton Kalén, Magnus Lindwall, Alexandra Pérez-Ferreirós, Markus Raab, A Mark Williams, Andreas Stenling

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Reply to Musculus et al.: A case of offside in scientific discourse?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Lisa MusculusDepartment of Performance Psychology, Institute of Psychology, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne 50933, Germany.
Duarte AraújoInterdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Human Performance (CIPER), Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, Lisbon 1499-002, Portugal.
Elisa BisagnoSurgical, Medical and Dental Department of Morphological Sciences related to Transplant, Oncology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia 421 21, Italy.
Henrik GustafssonThe Department of Sport and Social Sciences, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo 0863, Norway.
Anton KalénDigital Services and Systems, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Lulea University, Luleå SE-971 87, Sweden.
Magnus LindwallDepartment of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg SE-405 30, Sweden.
Alexandra Pérez-FerreirósIndependent Researcher.
Markus RaabDepartment of Performance Psychology, Institute of Psychology, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne 50933, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6546-1666
A Mark WilliamsDepartment of Health and Kinesiology, College of Health, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
Andreas StenlingDepartment of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå SE-901 87, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0834-1040

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40478866
PMCPMC12207423

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