ABSTRACT
In sport, decisions are made in dynamic situations including time pressure, uncertainty and high stakes. Klein (1997) developed the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to explain how experts use their experience to make efficient decisions in dynamic settings. This chapter aims to provide an overview of studies using this model in sports and to then re-examine it in order to account for anticipation and planned decisions. Studies indicated that decisions related to two temporalities: immediate and anticipated. Athletes, coaches and referees were seen to use a rapid pattern-recognition process to make their decisions in real time. Athletes also planned decisions and shaped situations to adapt them to the decisions to be implemented. This chapter suggests that the RPD model gives insufficient importance to anticipation and planned action. To bridge this gap, it presents the revisited RPD model (Macquet & Pellegrin, 2017) and forward-looking perspectives for research and practice.
