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Psychology Gets in the Game: Sport, Mind, and Behavior, 1880-1960
Contributor(s): Green, Christopher D. (Editor), Benjamin, Ludy T. (Editor)
ISBN: 0803222262     ISBN-13: 9780803222267
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Sports Psychology
Dewey: 796.01
LCCN: 2009025856
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.5" W x 8.49" (0.83 lbs) 324 pages
 
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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.