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Lara Cowell

The Effects of Psychology on Athletic Performance: How to Understand the Psychology of ... - 3 views

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    Negative external or internal psychological factors can lead to mental blocks, causing breaks in focus and preparation, poor performance and, at times, injuries to athletes. . If not dealt with, these factors may not only affect the athlete but the team as a whole. To combat these powerful effects, coaches and athletes can focus their efforts on tactics such as goal setting, routines, visualization and confidence. While the article does not specifically target language, readers could extrapolate how effective self-talk might incorporate some of these key tactics.
Lara Cowell

Positive Self Talk: Self talk may affect an athlete's sports performance - 11 views

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    One of the simplest concepts of sports psychology is developing positive self talk. It's also one of the hardest sports psychology skills to master. Research supports the theory that an athlete who continually practices positive self talk will improve his or her sports performance. Succumbing to negative mental self talk is a sure way to reduce performance and sports success. Over time and with repetition an athlete can develop a new habit of thinking positive statements and thoughts and expect a more positive outcome. It's this connection between the words and the belief that is the ultimate goal of this technique. Another important factor of positive self talk is that it must be possible and believable.
Lisa Stewart

Outspoken Gay Rights Advocate Chris Kluwe Released From Minnesota Vikings - 0 views

  • Kluwe's release comes after the Baltimore Ravens released Brendon Ayanbadejo, another prominent gay-rights advocate. Both are part of the group Athlete Ally, which works to end homophobia in sports.
Ryan Catalani

YOU'VE BEEN VERBED | More Intelligent Life - 0 views

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    "Mothers and fathers used to bring up children: now they parent. Critics used to review plays: now they critique them. Athletes podium, executives flipchart, and almost everybody Googles. What's the driving force behind it? "Looking for short cuts, especially if you have to say something over and over again, is a common motivator," says Groves."
reanellelao19

Body Language in Sports - 1 views

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    If you are an athlete, you are very aware of the importance of composing yourself during a game, match, or so on. The way that you carry yourself can either help you or bring you to your own demise. When we are competing, we are supposed to be aware of how we carry ourselves, i.e body language. This article discusses just that. It talks about how we can distinguish the emotional state of an athlete through they body language.
saituimoeai15

Sports Psychology: Self Talk - 2 views

As an athlete we try to find ways to focus in on big moments and key plays. But with that comes a lot of pressure. I found an article that talks about positive self talk which allows athletes to re...

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Lara Cowell

Thoughts that win - 12 views

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    For you athletes out there, an article on sports psychology and how self-talk, either technical or motivational, can enhance performance.
Lisa Stewart

Trash Talk Studies in College Athletes - 18 views

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    This is someone's PhD dissertation in the field of psychology
Lisa Stewart

Secrets of a Mind-Gamer - NYTimes.com - 9 views

  • To improve, we have to be constantly pushing ourselves beyond where we think our limits lie and then pay attention to how and why we fail.
  • I went to the hardware store and bought a pair of industrial-grade earmuffs and a pair of plastic laboratory safety goggles. I spray-painted them black and drilled a small eyehole through each lens. Henceforth I would always wear them to practice.
  • My first assignment was to begin collecting architecture. Before I could embark on any serious degree of memory training, I first needed a stockpile of palaces at my disposal. I revisited the homes of old friends and took walks through famous museums, and I built entirely new, fantastical structures in my imagination. And then I carved each building up into cubbyholes for my memories.
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  • Memory palaces don’t have to be palatial — or even actual buildings. They can be routes through a town or signs of the zodiac or even mythical creatures. They can be big or small, indoors or outdoors, real or imaginary, so long as they are intimately familiar. The four-time U.S. memory champion Scott Hagwood uses luxury homes featured in Architectural Digest to store his memories
  • The point of memory techniques to take the kinds of memories our brains aren’t that good at holding onto and transform them into the kinds of memories our brains were built for.
  • Today we write things down precisely so we don’t have to remember them, but through the late Middle Ages, books were thought of not just as replacements for memory but also as aides-mémoire.
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    describes techniques that memory-athletes use
Lara Cowell

Sports Psychology: Mental Skills for Achieving Optimum Performance | USTA - 3 views

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    This article, courtesy the US Tennis Association, summarizes mental skills that coaches should foster, in order to help athletes control their minds efficiently and consistently as they execute sport-related goals. This not only involves developing skills such as concentration and stress control, but it also includes efforts to influence personal characteristics such as self-esteem and sportsmanship.
nicoleikeda18

The Language of Sports Motivation - 4 views

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    In many countries outside the US, athletes use calming words to ready themselves before a match or game. They tell themselves phrases like "let's go!" and remind themselves to be present. One of India's highest ranked tennis players silences his inner dialogue so that he is ready to go when the moment comes. Many American athletes, however, get 'pumped up' by calling each other 'sissy' and criticizing themselves so they have more drive to do better. Some sports teams put value in their lives outside the sport by encouraging their team mates that they should "do it for their family's sake." Overall, there is not one pep talk that works best for different sports, different positions, or different players.
Lisa Stewart

Language Log » Univocal heteroglossia - 1 views

  • I don't think that the Greek rhetoricians had a word for the juxtaposition of disparate styles represented by passages like "not only are you violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain".
  • Kluwe's status as an athlete provides the ethos, the high style carries the logos, and the trash-talking establishes the pathos.
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    "For the past three years, Brendon Ayanbadejo, a backup linebacker and standout special-teams player for the [Baltimore] Ravens, has been advocating for same-sex marriage-writing about it, talking about it, appearing as one of the stars of a video campaign launched by backers of a measure to legalize it in Maryland. It's not his day job, but he's gotten enough attention for it that an anti-gay-marriage Maryland state legislator wrote to the owner of the Ravens and demanded that he shut Ayanbadejo up."
tylerohata16

Body Language in Sports - 2 views

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    Sports is all about the body, movement and nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication plays a major roll in the success of an athlete. They have to be able to interpret and send nonverbal signals to teammates and competitors incredibly quickly.
ronanwitherwax19

Storytelling Enhances the Influence of Science-Based Writing | Psychology Today - 0 views

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    In this article, it talks about the psychology behind storytelling. For many of us, when reading over an informational article, we happen to miss a lot of facts and we tend to "glaze over it" without retaining much of what was said. This is very common and psychologists have found that subtly putting information in to a story will increase the reader/listener's chances of learning the material. A prime example of this was done by the University of Washington when hinting at climate change in the form of a story.
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