{"id":1431,"date":"2018-02-26T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2018-02-26T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:00:16","slug":"women-calmer-pressure-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/women-calmer-pressure-new-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Are Calmer under Pressure: New Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tNew research by Alex Krumer of the University of St. Gallen, as reported in the Harvard Business Review<\/em>, finds that women respond better to pressure in competitive sports than men do.<\/a> Krumer and his colleagues analyzed more than 8,200 games from high-stakes Grand Slam tennis matches. They chose to include only the first matches of Grand Slams to control for the fatigue factor. They also chose Grand Slam tennis matches because performance was easy to measure, the monetary incentives and ranking points were the largest out of all the tournaments, and men and women received the same prize money. Krumer and his colleagues found that the men\u2019s performance in unbroken serves deteriorated more than the women\u2019s when the game was at a critical juncture, such as a 4-4 tie. Krumer said, \u201cAmong women, we saw barely any difference between pre- and post-tie performance.\u201d\nWhile the researchers acknowledge that applying this information to the labor market is difficult, they also speculate that biological differences between men and women identified by other researchers are consistent with their results. These are just two examples:\n\n\n