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Many people are fascinated in the psychology of sport. But what is sport psychology and why the fascination? Often... View More

  “I always felt pressure before a big fight, because what was happening was real” - Muhammad... View More

There are a number of approaches to explaining the emotion-performance link in sport. These include Apter’s... View More

The role of emotions in sport can be explained through Apter’s reversal theory (1989) which was first applied... View More

Work on competitive state anxiety research has largely been driven by the work of Martens and colleagues who developed... View More

How do we deal with self-criticism? How do we overcome shame? How do we overcome aloneness? Thomson and colleagues ... View More

To effectively cope in Polar contexts, you need more conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability and... View More

Shame is an unwanted feeling that we associate with avoiding and withdrawing. When people feel shame, they just... View More

Many people live their lives thinking there is no hope: no hope of change, no hope of recovery and no hope of success.... View More