Why Athletes Choke Under Pressure

Go to https://NordVPN.com/PSYCH to get 75% off a 3 year plan and use code PSYCH to get an additional month for free.

Even the most skilled athletes, musicians, and performers can make mistakes on relatively simple tasks, so what’s happening in our brains when we choke, and is there something we can do to overcome these moments?

Hosted by: Hank Green
----------
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow  

SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org
----------
Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:

Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
----------
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook:   / scishow  
Twitter:   / scishow  
Tumblr:   / scishow  
Instagram:   / thescishow  
----------
Sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www2.uibk.ac.at/downloads/c40...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
http://www.pgedf.ufpr.br/ESCALA%20ANS...
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.2516
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/rel...