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the weight of an audience that turns muscle memory into amnesia.
means the stress response triggered by high-stakes evaluation, which can degrade the very skills being judged.
from studied since the 1908 yerkes-dodson law linking arousal and performance, but the term exploded with sports psychology in the 1970s explaining why athletes choke.
choking mechanismconscious attention hijacks skills that should run automatically
home advantage flipsin decisive playoff games, home teams sometimes underperform
stereotype threatawareness of judgment alone can lower actual performance