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References for Sports Psychology

American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 2000.

Baumeister, R. (1984). Choking under pressure: Self-consciousness and paradoxical effects of incentives on skillful performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 610-620.

Bacon, V., & Russell, P. (2004). Addiction and the college athlete: The Multiple Addictive Behaviors Questionnaire (MABQ) with college athletes. The Sport Journal, 7(2).

Beilock, S., & Carr, T. (2001). On the fragility of skilled performance: What governs choking under pressure? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130(4), 701-725.

Beilock, S., Carr, T., MacMahon, C., & Starkes, J. (2002). When paying attention becomes counterproductive: Impact of divided versus skill-focused attention on novice and experinced performance of sensorimotor skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8, 6-16.

Beilock, S., Bertenthal, B, McCoy, A., & Carr, T. (2004). Haste does not always make waste: Expertise, direction,of attention, and speed versus accuracy in performing sensorimotor skills. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11(2), 373-379.

Cox, R. (2007). Sport Psychology: Concepts and Applications. New York: McGraw-Hill. Csikszentimichalyi, M. (1990). The psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper and Row.

Csikszentimichalyi, M. (1993). The evolving self. New York: Harper Collins Publishing. Gray, R. (2004). Attending to the execution of a complex sensorimotor skill: Expertise differences, choking, and slumps. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10(1), 42-54.

Labrie, R., Shaffer, H., LaPlante, D. & Weschler, H. (2003). Correleates of college student gambling in the United States. Journal of American College Health, 52(2), 53-62.

Masters, R. (1992). Knowledge, knerves, and know-how: The role of explicit versus implicit knowledge in the breakdown of a complex motor skill under pressure. British Journal of Psychology, 83, 343-358

Masters, R., & Polman, R. (1996). What are “normal movements” in any population? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 81-82.

Maxwell, J., Masters, R., and Poolton (2006). Performance breakdown in Sport: The roles of reinvestment and verbal knowledge. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 77(2), 271-276.

Perkins-Ceccato, N., Passmore, S., & Lee, T. (2003). Effects of focus of attention depend on golfer’s skill. Journal of Sport Sciences, 21, 593-600.

Poolton, J., Masters, R., and Maxwell, J. (2005). The relationship between errorless learning conditions and subsequent performance. Human Movement Science, 24, 362-378.

Poolton, J., Maxwell, J., Masters, R., & Raab, M. (2006). Benefits of an external focus of attention: Common coding or conscious processing? Journal of Sport Sciences, 24(1), 89-99.

Reber, A. (1993). Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Weiss, S. (1999). A comparison of maladaptive behaviors of athletes and nonathletes. Journal of Psychology, 133(3), 315-

Wulf, G., Hoess, M., & Prinz, W. (1998). Instructions for motor learning: Differential effects of internal vs. external focus of attention. Journal of Motor Behavior, 30, 169-179.

Wulf, G., Lauterbach, B., & Toole, T. (1999). Learning advantages of an external focus of attention in golf. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 70, 120-126.

Wulf, G., Shea, C., & Park, J. (2001). Attention in motor learning: Preferences for and advantages of an external focus. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 72, 335-344.

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