Psychology Gets in the Game

Sport, Mind, and Behavior, 1880-1960

Christopher D. Green, Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2009
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-2226-7 (ISBN)

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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 sought to understand mental factors that affect athletic performance. The essays collected in this volume tell the stories of these psychologists and their subjects and of the social and academic context that surrounded them.

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.

Christopher D. Green is a professor of psychology at York University. He is the coauthor of Early Psychological Thought: Ancient Accounts of the Mind and Soul and the coeditor of The Transformation of Psychology: Influences of 19th-Century Philosophy, Technology, and Natural Science. Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. is a professor of psychology at Texas A&M University and the author and editor of numerous books, including A History of Psychology in Letters and A Brief History of Modern Psychology. Contributors: David Baker, Frank G. Baugh, Günther Bäumler, Angela H. Becker, Ludy T. Benjamin Jr., Stephen F. Davis, Donald A. Dewsbury, Alfred H. Fuchs, Stephen T. Graef, Christopher D. Green, C. James Goodwin, Matthew T. Huss, and Alan S. Kornspan.

List of Illustrations Introduction: The Origins of Sport Psychology Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. and Christopher D. Green 1. The Dawn of Sport Psychology in Europe, 18801930: Early Pioneers of a New Branch of Applied Science Gunther Baumler 2. E. W. Scripture: The Application of "New Psychology" Methodology to Athletics C. James Goodwin 3. Norman Triplett: Recognizing the Importance of Competition Stephen F. Davis, Matthew T. Huss, and Angela H. Becker 4. Karl S. Lashley and John B. Watson: Early Research on the Acquisition of Skill in Archery Donald A. Dewsbury 5. Psychology and Baseball: The Testing of Babe Ruth Alfred H. Fuchs 6. An Offensive Advantage: The Football Charging Studies at Stanford University Frank G. Baugh and Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. 7. Coleman Roberts Griffith: "Father" of North American Sport Psychology Christopher D. Green 8. Paul Brown: Bringing Psychological Testing to Football Stephen T. Graef, Alan S. Kornspan, and David Baker 9. 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. Contributors Index

Zusatzinfo	12 images
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8032-2226-2 / 0803222262
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-2226-7 / 9780803222267
Zustand	Neuware