How believing to do better improve performance
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 02-07-2016
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People using self-talk, for example telling yourself "I can do better next time" - performed better than the control group in every portion of the task.
The greatest improvements were seen in self-talk-outcome (telling yourself, "I can beat my best score"), self-talk-process (telling yourself, "I can react quicker this time"), imagery-outcome (imagining yourself playing the game and beating your best score), and imagery-process (imagining yourself playing and reacting quicker than last time).