Contributions

  • Green, Christopher D. - Contributor
  • Benjamin, Ludy T., 1945- - Contributor

Publication

2009 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

78,250 words, Guess

Page Count

313 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780803222267
  • Open LibraryOL24061131M

Classifications

  • DDC796.01
  • LCCGV706.4 .P684 2009
  • LCCGV706.4.P684 2009

Description

Although sport psychology did not fully mature as a recognized discipline until the 1960s, pioneering psychologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, making greater use of empirical research methodologies, sought to understand mental factors that affect athletic performance. Though the psychologists behind the studies described here worked independently of one another and charted their own distinct courses of inquiry, their works, taken together, provided the corpus of precedents and foundations on which the modern field of sport psychology was built. The essays collected in this volume tell the stories not only of these psychologists and their subjects but of the social and academic context that surrounded them, shaping and being shaped by their ideas.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Psychology gets in the game: sport, mind, and behavior, 1880-1960University of Nebraska Press2009-01-01

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