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Published on: 17th October, 2011
FAN LOYALTY |
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By Paul Schienberg, PhD A fan’s loyalty to a sport franchise builds like any loyalty to specific product. You wonder why a team that abandoned a City still maintains loyalty from its fans. Yes, many are angry at being left. Many other fans are in shock. But for many other fans, they are remain emotionally [...]
Published on: 16th October, 2011
TRYING TO FAIL |
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One of the problems with professional sports teams getting its personnel through the draft has been a concern for fans and teams. If a team is doing poorly at the beginning of the season, and there is going to be a franchise player in the upcoming draft next year, a motivation is created to tank [...]
Published on: 7th June, 2010
THE BURDEN: The Older Sibling Athlete |
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by Madhuli Kulkarni – A Sport Psychologist This article is with reference to your article ‘SIBLING RISK TAKING ON THE BASE PATH’ I have worked with quite a good number of siblings who have played the same sport. Here is a very interesting and a very similar situation that you have shown in the [...]
Published on: 6th June, 2010
WHAT MAKES FOR A GREAT SPORTS TEAM RIVALRY! |
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By Paul Schienberg, PhD This week the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers are playing each other for the Championship of the National Basketball Association. These two teams have played against each other more often than any other combination of professional basketball teams in the final series to become the champions. The Rivalry is intense – [...]
Published on: 3rd June, 2010
SIBLING RISK TAKING IN SPORTS |
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By Paul Schienberg, PhD Frank Sulloway and Richard Zweigenhaft studied the evidence of younger brothers willing to take greater risks by stealing bases. They dug through the data base of baseball statistics. In general, it has been postulated that younger siblings take more risks than their older brothers because of the need to fight for [...]
Published on: 19th May, 2010
KHEL KHEL MAIN - EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE |
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By Madhuli Kulkarni What does it take to turn a team of talented hard workers into unstoppable world beaters? Pride, patriotism, and above all the aura. You definitely feel the presence or the aura. Opposition teams feel it too. It was Australia’s aura that influenced Savrav Ganguly to bowl first when he won the toss [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
Dr. Schienberg on Bernie Madoff |
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Dr. Scheinberg appeared with Ron Kuby on the former Air America to discuss Bernie Madoff on March 1, 2009. [audio:http://www.psychedonline.com/mp3/KUBY_3-1.mp3]
Published on: 13th May, 2009
Where Have You Gone Dom DiMaggio |
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The passing of Joe DiMaggio’s brother was a loss that got very little press. It marked another end to a great era in baseball. When you have a famous brother it is so hard to get the attention you deserve. Dom was a great ballplayer in own right. He deserves to be in the Hall [...]
Published on: 3rd May, 2009
An Amateur Golfer From Long Island Plays With the Big Boys At The 2007 Bob Hope Dessert Classic |
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By Paul Schienberg, PhD My brother, Mark, plays out of the Muttontown Country Club on Long Island. On January 13, of 2007, he and I set out on a journey that would result in him playing as an amateur golfer in the Bob Hope Pro-Am Dessert Classic in Palm Springs. Mark had never played in [...]
Published on: 19th July, 2007
Question to the Sports Psychologist |
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Question: I consistently over swinging in my golf game. I don’t understand why. I say to myself, “Easy does it!” I try to ease up. I really do. Then I take a swing at the ball. Like a Greek chorus, my partners sing out “I’m swinging too hard.” It just doesn’t feel possible. One day [...]
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