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Sport psychology is concerned with optimising sports performance by improving mental skills, dealing with issues such as confidence and anxiety and building teams.

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ndividuals’ motivations can directly influence their performance; this is especially true in the sporting world. Reversal Theory’s “Eight Motivational States” provide the foundation for the AMSP, which; “provides a great way to help athletes and coaches understand themselves and use that knowledge to achieve their best performance under pressure.” – Phil Moore, Sports Psychologist.

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Up in Scotland there's a nice little football team called Dunfermline Athletic (The Pars). Yes, I admit it they're "my" team. I'm pulling my hair out, like most of our fans, because in the league progress has been downwards for most of the last five-ish years and after half-threatening to push for promotion back to the Scottish Premier League (SPL) we are now again flirting with relegation.Dunfermline Athletic Logo

Yet in the the cups we're giants; world beaters; nay SUPERHUMAN! Well, almost. Why is that?

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On retiring from sport an athlete may set new goals, establish a new career but they may still miss an important key. This key can be the difference between a successful transition or a loss of purpose and drive. I'm talking about the loss of significance, an important human need as discussed here.

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Reversal theory is one of the few psychological theories of motivation or personality that takes sport really seriously and makes it a central topic. (When did Freud or Jung ever write about soccer, or Skinner go beyond teaching pigeons to play ping pong?)

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The booing that Emmanuel Eboue received from the his own (Arsenal) fans as he was taken off this weekend has sparked a great deal of media debate. I think there are a number of reasons why Arsenal fans felt that it was OK to boo him on Saturday

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Read the latest blogs and articles from sport psychology professionals who are members of iStadia's global sport & exercise community.

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iStadia member Sam Kotadia, through his company Mindsport Ltd, has just released a range of sport psychology 'self-help' cards for athletes and students that will help you to keep mental strategies to hand at all times.

We are delighted to be able to offer these through the iStadia Marketplace.

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So much in sport revolves around key moments and turning points during competitions. Losing focus and motivation at critical times always damages performance.

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Imagine winning a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. No really, go ahead, close your eyes and visualize it. What did you see? Were you standing on the medal platform looking out at the crowd, waving and taking in the scene through your own eyes, or were you a spectator in the crowd watching yourself getting the medal put around your neck? This choice between "first-person" or "third-person" visualization actually makes a difference on our motivation to achieve a future goal.

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This article describes why coaches and parents should avoid placing too much emphasis on winning in youth sport, and focus more on the process of performance.

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Less than 3% of people write down their goals. We are statistically more likely to spend time organising exactly what we want from the supermarket instead of working out what we want from life. Crazy but true.

The chances are that you commit most of your working day to helping your boss to achieve their goals, instead of spending time working on your own. One way to enhance the quality of your life is to learn how to apply an effective goal-setting program. These tips will help you on your way to doing this.

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How many of you have big dreams and goals that you want to achieve with greater certainty!

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Last week I attended a golf psychology conference in Oxford organised by Dr Brian Hemmings. The last one of these was 2004 I think, so this was an opportunity to catch up with some of the latest research and applied psychology in golf.

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How viewing motivation in a different light can lead to a happy, engaged workforce and deliver positive results for the business.

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A provocative look at business psychology, change management, employee engagement and organisational development.

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Liverpool have been on great form of late, scoring for fun and keeping it tight at the back, but on Saturday they lost 3-1 at Reading and were really quite poor. Their collective minds were clearly not focused in present, in the 'here and now' and they pa

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In a world where medals are won and lost by hundredths of a second and championships decided on goal difference or marginal decisions, every aspect of sports performance has to count.

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I’ve just been reading “The New Psychology of Leadership” in the Scientific American Mind Magazine (Reicher et al., 2007). In this the authors suggest that effective leadership comes not from the personal qualities or personality of the leader (so c

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Change is now pretty much inevitable in work, whether that means responding to market volatility or implementing major change programmes.

But businesses still struggle to manage change, and despite the all of the 'knowledge' that we not have about it -

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