Judgment, Decision Making and Success in Sport - Couverture rigide

Bar-Eli, Michael; Plessner, Henning; Raab, Markus

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0470694548 ISBN 13 : 9780470694541

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

What determines ′success′ and ′failure′ in sports? Clearly, goodjudgment and decision–making play a crucial role in influencingsporting outcomes, and in determining the success or failure ofindividual athletes, teams, coaches, and referees alike. But whatdo we really know about the implications of judgment anddecision–making on sport?

Judgment, Decision–Making and Success in Sport introducesthe fundamental approaches of Judgment and Decision–Making (JDM)research in psychology and applies them directly to a variety ofJDM problems in sport. In addition to presenting a general overviewof the field, several specific judgment and decision–makingproblems encountered by athletes, coaches, managers, and refereesare considered, and recommendations are made for their effectiveresolution. Among the many topics addressed are the evaluation ofathletic performance; motivational and emotional judgments;optimizing judgment processes; the decisions of coaches, managers,and referees; and the prediction of sports results. Enlighteningand informative, Judgment, Decision–Making and Success inSport illustrates the exciting potential of the application ofJDM to the world of sports.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Michael Bar–Eli is the Nat Holman Chair in Sports Researchat the Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management and Headof the Management Studies program at Ben–Gurion University of theNegev in Israel. He is also Senior Vice President of theAsian–South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology.

Henning Plessner is Professor of Social Psychology at theUniversity of Leipzig. His main research areas are Judgment andDecision–Making in sports and the psychology of intuition.

Markus Raab is Department Head of Performance Psychologyat the German Sport University Cologne. He is Editor of theGerman Journal of Sport Psychology, Section Editor of theInternational Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, andEditorial Board Member of Psychology of Sport andExercise.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470694548
• ISBN 13: 9780470694541
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230