Talk:Performance psychology

message: This article on Performance Psychology has a good general overview and was relatively useful.  I think that there is plenty of room to expand on this topic.  The first sentence mentions that performance psychology studies the factors that allows people to succeed in society, but it doesn't go into detail on what those factors are.  The article also mentions that performance psychology is a growing field in sports and business, but is doesn't touch on in what other professions.  It references the relationship to sports briefly and then it jumps to how it should be applied to front line workers and that if they aren't motivated or trained that will not succeed.  I think there should be additional supporting facts.  The field is a very broad field and research can lead it into many different directions.  I think as this page grows, several different specific topics will be expanded upon such as how it is applied in sports, corporate management and the front line workers, mental and motivational facotrs that improve performance, focus, leadership and many more.  I look forward to taking the opportunity to work on this page.(WheelsDudley (talk) 22:36, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Scope for Improvement

message: The graphic at the head of the article needs to be elaborated on. Its legend, simply 'Relative performance' means little. It would ideally need to have clear axes and scales, and the legend could be expanded on; instead of being at the top, the graphic ought to be located within a section that deals with it or where it would lend greater understanding to or illustrate elements in the text. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 06:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relative performance graphic 

message: I'm pasting over some of the concerns that were mentioned at , so that they will still be easy to find after that review is removed.
*  Tagged "POV", article reads like a press release for its topic. Long paragraphs with a single "reference", which in one case went to the home page of mindtools.com, where no discernible support for the claims in that paragraph were found. Sorry but this is not ready for the main page. For a better article model, check out Cognitive psychology.     Sharktopus talk 00:11, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments from DYK 

message: The concept has good analysis and advantageous but the links are insufficient in this article.
Lizia7 (talk) 16:26, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  links 

message: Earlier today I noticed this article was overflowing with spammy, unreliable sources linked at the bottom of the page. After going through them I went through the cited sources. The only source which meets WP:RS remotely is an article on the Psychology Today website (which, as a popular psychology publication, is pretty poor). The article was ad-like and even cited commercially-motivated websites of some of its practitioners (and tagged for both issues for a long time). So I removed the bad sources, the worst links, some big, unsourced claims, and started upon looking for sources myself.
Sources exist, to be sure, but I'm noticing that in the scholarly psychology literature, "performance psychology" is based on sport psychology, which reframed itself as a sub-field of performance psychology in order to create an umbrella that covers application of sport psychology ideas, techniques, etc. to domains other than sports. This tight connection is clear from this article, which is dominated by a long section on sport psychology. So there's likely an article that could be written here, but the one we presently have is effectively unsourced, written like an advertisement, and doing more harm than good. Since the distinction seems largely to be based on clientele rather than methods/basis, and because the article for sport psychology is leaps and bounds better, I'm boldly redirecting it to sport psychology for now (without prejudice to restoring/rebuilding it). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 03:55, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page problems, redirect 

message: Anyone wishing to contribute to this topic (i.e. the scientific study of human performance across domains and methodologies) can contribute to the page on Performance science. geordie (talk) 17:40, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Performance Science