Sports Psychology

great success for her work with boxers. Yates was one of the first sports psychologists to use positive statements as a means of developing confidence. Her achievements are doubly impressive due to the low number of women in both sports and psychology during that era. Building a Team After the Second World War (1939–1945), professional and college sports again experienced a new growth in fan interest, which in turn led to greater resources available for the team. Fewer and fewer teammanagers held onto the belief about amateurism as more and more teams began to see the value of intensive training for their teams. While players of that era were still underpaid relative to modern athletes, they nevertheless earned enough

Texas Longhorn players get hypnotized!

Chapter 2: History and Development of the Field

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