People's tendency to favor action over inaction

Research:

A study analysed how action bias works in soccer.

The authors examined 286 penalty kicks from top leagues.

The kicks were equally distributed with 1/3 of the kicks aimed to the left, 1/3 to the right, and 1/3 to the centre.

However, the goalkeepers 94% of the time choose to either dive left or right, hardly ever choosing to remain in the middle.