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.