Psychology Gets in the Game (English, Christopher D. Green | Ludy T. Benjamin)

About the Book

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 wo…

ISBN: 9780803222267