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Sport and Exercise Psychology

Groups the psychologists whose primary work concerns the psychological factors associated with performance and participation in sport and physical activity. Belongs here: Coleman Griffith, generally credited as the founder of sport psychology in the United States, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, whose flow research grew from studying peak athletic and creative performance.

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1. Wikipedia: Sport Psychology
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The field of sport psychology in general began in the 1960s with the formation of the International Society of Sport Psychology in 1965, The North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity in 1967, and The Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology in 1969.
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