4 options
Psychology gets in the game : sport, mind, and behavior, 1880-1960 / edited by Christopher D. Green and Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Psychological aspects.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 i
- Contents:
- The origins of sport psychology / Ludy T. Benjamin, jr. and Christopher D. Green
- The dawn of sport psychology in Europe, 1880-1930: early pioneers of a new branch of applied science / Gunther Baumler
- E.W. Scripture: the application of "new psychology" methodology to athletics / C. James Goodwin
- Norman Triplett: recognizing the importance of competition / Stephen F. Davis, Matthew T. Huss, and Angela H. Becker
- Karl S. Lashley and John B. Watson: early research on the acquisition of skill in archery / Donald A. Dewsbury
- Psychology and baseball: the testing of Babe Ruth / Alfred H. Fuchs
- An offensive advantage: the football charging studies at Stanford University / Frank G. Baugh and Ludy T. Benjamin, jr.
- Coleman Roberts Griffith: "father" of North American sport psychology / Christopher D. Green
- Paul Brown: bringing psychological testing to football / Stephen T. Graef, Alan S. Kornspan, and David Baker
- Enhancing performance in sport: the use of hypnosis and other psychological techniques in the 1950s and 1960s / Alan S. Kornspan
- Conclusion: The "proper" history of sport psychology / Christopher D. Green and Ludy T. Benjamin, jr.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612424441
- 9781282424449
- 1282424440
- 9780803226739
- 080322673X
- OCLC:
- 593239980
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.