Theories

Home advantage
After drawing in an away match to West Brom, after the game, Liverpool Manager Brendan Rodgers looked forward to the following week’s fixture with Arsenal due to the home advantage they had been receiving in the season. Rodgers stated that “I sense the belief, we love playing there” when he...
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Performance

Understanding psychology in soccer
“Forget all your phases of play and technical practices. You first need to light a fire under players.” (Craig Short) ‘Psychology’ is an evocative word. To the layperson, it looks...
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Nutrition

The Paleo perspective
What's it all About? Humans evolved during the Paleolithic era between 2.6million and 100,000 years ago and in accordance with Pritchard (2010), the changes that has come about related to...
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Mental Health

The emergence of ACT in sport psychology
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) (Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999) is a form of behavior therapy that incorporates the concepts of mindfulness, acceptance of thoughts and emotions and values-driven behavior...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Perfectly motivated?
A controversial issue within the psychology field is perfectionism. Perfectionism is described as a broad multidimensional personality trait characterised by the pursuit of extremely high standards; striving for flawlessness, and over...
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Well Being

Social media in sport
According to Ofcom’s 2013 report, 21.7 million households in the UK have access to the internet, from these households 55% report using social media. You may be thinking this number...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Coping with Adversity in MMA
‘Environmental demands’ can cause stress to fighters in the run up to a bout that can go beyond what is needed to keep them motivated. A certain amount of positive...
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Mental Health

Getting the high from exercise
It is well documented that exercise enhances overall mental and physical wellbeing with it being prescribed as an intervention in some cases of depression (Berger & Motl, 2000). Glancing over...
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Applied Sport Psychology

The athlete personality?
This article presents the first in a series of articles I shall write with regards to personality in the context of sport and exercise. The current discussion centres on whether...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Would cricketers benefit from visual information training?
To control a successful catching action it is essential cricketers obtain relevant information about the environment. The catcher must predict the direction in which the ball will travel in order...
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