Sport Psychology Arena

Tennis umpires and linesmen have better eyesight than players

Psychology Press author George Mather has finally disproved John McEnroe's claims that the ball was in.

"Using evidence from the Association of Tennis Professionals, George Mather, of the University of Sussex, has concluded that while players and line judges can be prone to error when assessing where a ball has bounced, because of what he calls "inherent limitations of human perceptual vision", the officials are significantly more accurate.

Dr Mather conducted his research after the introduction in 2006 of the Hawk-Eye electronic line-calling system, which has revolutionised the sport."

Read the Article in today's Times Online

find out more about Dr Mather's book Foundations of Perception / order online

Book launch for Pure Sport

The launch for Pure Sport by John Kremer and Aidan Moran was held in Newman House, St Stephens' Green, Dublin, on 4th April.

A crowd of sports people, academics and press enjoyed the event and the historic surroundings. The launch was sponsored by the Bank of Scotland (Ireland).

www.flickr.com Psychology Press' Pure Sport photoset

find out more about Pure Sport / order online

Now available: Pure Sport — Practical Sport Psychology

Are you "only as good as your last game"?

Is there an "I" in team?

Is it really just a matter of "keeping your eye on the ball"?

Pure Sport explains in everyday language the whys and wherefores of contemporary sport psychology, pinpointing what works and what doesn’t when it comes to performance enhancement. This is a 'must-read' for coaches and athletes.

"A welcome and important guide to any athlete, coach or spectator at any level in sport interested in improving their game or knowledge of their sport." - Kieran Shannon, in the Sunday Tribune

find out more about Pure Sport / order online

New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders

We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.

From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).

And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.

Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.

New Sport Psychology Arena

Welcome to our new Sport Psychology arena.

We hope you find this arena very easy to navigate around, because we know that you want to find the information you're after quickly, whether it's the 'buy now' link for a particular book, the date & venue of a forthcoming conference, or the online version of a specific academic journal article.

Apart from a completely new visual design and layout, we've added a number of new features to address your changing demands and requirements.

We hope we've made this arena invaluable for you, and we'd encourage you to add this site to your favourites, post it to del.icio.us (if you're a del.icio.us user), blog about it (then let us know), or recommend it to your friends and colleagues.

Here's a very brief overview of some of the new features:

RSS Feeds of latest titles

We've created an RSS Feed of our newest Sport Psychology books so that you can subscribe to receive news of our latest titles. RSS feeds are an increasingly popular way to check for news and updates from all the websites you regularly visit without having to visit them all individually.

We've created a page to explain more about RSS, which will also help you to subscribe using a wide range of freely available RSS Feed Readers.

You can also use our RSS feed to display an automatically-updated list of our latest Sport Psychology titles on your blog or website (let us know if you do this because we'd be interested to see).

Conferences

We've updated our Sport Psychology Conferences listings with an interactive map (see screenshot, right), allowing you to see, at a glance, all of the events that are coming up near you.

You can zoom in for a closer look (close enough, in some cases, to get street directions!) and click on the map markers for conference details and a link to the conference's home page.

Journals

We've vastly increased the coverage of our academic journals on this arena, and linked them to our Online Journals website. This means that you're only a few clicks away from the latest academic journal articles.

Many universities and other institutions already subscribe to our journals, so you may already have immediate access to thousands of our online journal articles. If not then you can either choose to subscribe or, if it's more convenient for you, simply order an individual article.

Sport Psychology Blog Posts, Country-specific book listings, and more

There's a wealth of other new features, including the latest Blog Posts from around the world which have been tagged as being about Sport Psychology, and we've also made sure that all the books you see are available in your country by automatically identifying which country you're in (on the rare occasions when we might get it wrong you can manually override it on the User Preferences page).

We're very excited about the changes we've made to this arena, and as we mentioned earlier, we'll be updating all of our arenas over the coming months. But we don't want to rest on our laurels, so we'll be looking for new ways to improve the arenas and new features to offer you.

If you have any suggestions or comments then please don't hesitate to let us know.