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Performance Psychology: Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion

Performance Psychology: Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion

by Markus Raab (Editor), Alexandra Pizzera (Editor), Sven Hoffmann (Editor), Sylvain Laborde (Editor), Babett Lobinger (Editor), Markus Raab (Editor)

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Synopsis

This book integrates findings from across domains in performance psychology to focus on core research on what influences peak and non-peak performance. The book explores basic and applied research identifying cognition-action interactions, perception-cognition interactions, emotion-cognition interactions, and perception-action interactions. The book explores performance in sports, music, and the arts both for individuals and teams/groups, looking at the influence of cognition, perception, personality, motivation and drive, attention, stress, coaching, and age. This comprehensive work includes contributions from the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 366
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 25 Sep 2015
ISBN 10: 0128033770
ISBN 13: 9780128033777
Book Overview: An integrative overview of what influences peak and nonpeak performance in sports, music, the arts, and other applied settings

Author Bio
Professor Markus Raab (GSU) is Head of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University and Head of the Performance Psychology Department. Additionally, he is Research Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. The main focus of the research programme in performance psychology is on judgement and decision making in sports, health and peak performance. He favours a simple heuristic approach and an embodied cognition approach to understanding the interaction of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviour from a psychological perspective. Prof. Raab has about 80 scientific publications in well to highly ranked journals, was awarded by European and international scientific associations and has supervised 10 PhDs in graduate schools or in individual supervision.