In the high-stakes world of competitive sports, physical ability alone is rarely enough to guarantee success. The mental game ...

Using psychology to improve athletic performanceFor example, sports psychologists worked with elite basketball pros like Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant to help them perform better ...

The thrill of victory; the agony of defeat. Sports clichés are everywhere. But what does it actually take to think like a winner? This hour, TED speakers explore the psychology of winning and losing.

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s ...

Sport and Exercise Psychology is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the cognitive, emotional and behavioural processes underpinning both competitive sport and health‐related exercise. It ...

Ted Lasso, everyone’s favorite TV soccer coach is coming back for season four. Turns out, sports psychologists and ...

Excerpted from the book MIND GAME: An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes by Julie Kliegman. Copyright © 2024 by Julie Kliegman. From Rowman ...

The study of passion in the context of sports and other life activities has evolved into a pivotal area of psychological research, examining how individuals’ deep-seated inclinations shape not only ...

Athletes on the field often struggle with the mental aspects of the game, which, in this respect, makes them no different than esports gamers, who also compete just as intensely on screen. Whether ...