What's the best way to stop a penalty kick? Do nothing: just stand in the center of the goal and don't move. That is the surprising conclusion of 'Action Bias Among Elite Soccer Goalkeepers: The Case of the Penalty Kick,' a paper published by a team of Israeli scientists in the Journal of Economic Psychology. If that's true, why do goalies almost always dive off to one side? Because, the academics theorized, the goalies are afraid of looking as if they're doing nothing - and then missing the ball...He suspects the behavior erupts during financial crisis too...the same goes, of course, for presidents and politicians."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14Ideas-Section2-B-t-008.html
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