Psychology gets in the game
Subtitle: sport, mind, and behavior, 1880-1960
By: edited by Christopher D. Green and Ludy T. Benjamin Jr.
Contributors: Green, Christopher D.; Benjamin, Ludy T., 1945-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780803222267
Subjects: Sports -- Psychological aspects
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.