Athletic Performance

FEATURE: Cognitive Style AND Athletic Performance Part I: Distortions

Published on: 6th March, 2003

FEATURE: Cognitive Style AND Athletic Performance Part I: Distortions  | read this item

by Paul Schienberg, Ph.D.
The pressures of competitive sport offer ideal situations for creating irrational or distorted cognitive styles. What athletes say to themselves may not positively contribute to success. It may, in fact, lead to failure. Some athletes and their coaches believe that the best performance comes from No conscious thinking [...]