The acquisition of soccer skills is fundamental to our enjoyment of the game and is essential
to the attainment of expertise. Players spend most of their time in practice with the intention …

Twenty-one years ago, Ericsson, Krampe and Tesch-Romer published their seminal work
expounding the notion of deliberate practice in explaining the development of expertise …

Research focusing on perceptual-cognitive skill in sport is abundant. However, the existing
qualitative syntheses of this research lack the quantitative detail necessary to determine the …

Psychological Dynamics of Sport and Exercise, Fourth Edition, reflects the latest
developments in the field of sport and exercise psychology and presents various …

A controversial question within elite sports is whether young athletes need to specialize
early, as suggested by Ericsson et al., or if it is more beneficial to follow the path of early …

Although sport is played with the body, it is won in the mind. Inspired by this idea, the second
edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive critical introduction to sport and …

Some of these categories are reactive in that they are responses to immediately preceding
player/team behaviors, such as desirable performances, mistakes, or misbehaviors. Other …

The transformation of talented youngsters into senior world-beaters is a topic of interest for
practitioners and researchers alike. Unfortunately there is a dearth of research to guide the …

This article investigates the relationship between passion and the attainment of an elite level
of performance within a population of expert musicians. Furthermore, the mediational role of …

Some researchers in sports attribute elite performance to genetic talent. However, they do
not offer complete genetic accounts that specify the causal processes involved in the …