Theories

Psychos in Sport
Psychopathy is a personality style that refers to certain effective and interpersonal traits such as selfishness, self-centeredness and a lack of empathy. Psychopathy is considered to involve the concept of evil when people enjoy inflicting both emotional and physical pain, such as that of Sadism Disorder. Salient features include a...
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Mental Health

Should sports coaches receive more education regarding recognising and treating eating disorders in athletes?
Eating disorders and disordered eating behaviour are serious mental conditions “that manifest themselves in a variety of eating and weight-related signs and symptoms” (Thompson & Sherman, 2010, p. 7) and...
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News

Mayweather-Maindana II: The Importance of Self-Efficacy  
As Saturday's pay-per-view approaches, the excitement heightens between fight and sport fans alike, as Floyd "Money" Mayweather rolls (most probably in one of his many Royces) into Las Vegas to...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Identifying talent - are we using the right tools?
Identifying talent is one of sports biggest and most profitable issues. There is a constant seek for a new Christiano Ronaldo in the world of football, the next LeBron James...
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News

Problem gambling among athletes: Why are they susceptible?
It is only very recently that a worldwide blanket ban on betting and gambling for certain participants in English football was introduced in a bid to tackle corruption in the...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Brain vs. Brawn: How mental fatigue affects physical performance.
What if I told you that I could influence your exercise performance just by making you read a book or play a computer game? Well, research suggests that I could....
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Applied Sport Psychology

How to develop consistency
As the hockey school season winds down and training camps begin in approximately a month’s time, most athletes look to build upon their summer skates and create a consistency of...
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Theories

Aggression and level of contact within sport
Aggression is the display of an intentionally harmful physical action, rather than a cognitive or affective state (Tod, Thatcher & Rahman, 2010). It takes two major forms, the first being...
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Applied Sport Psychology

The MAC approach to sport performance enhancement
Frank Gardner and Zella Moore (2001) developed the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach to sport performance enhancement in a response to the absence of research supporting traditional psychological skills training (PST) techniques...
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Nutrition

The psychology of food choice
I can only assume that with the abundance of information that is at our fingertips today, we are quite aware of what is good food and what is bad! We...
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