Abstract des Autors

Presenting research and defining the relation between different areas of research (e.g., performance psychology and sport psychology) enhance the potential for cross-fertilization on theoretical, methodological, and practical levels. This chapter clarifies the distinctions between performance psychology and sport psychology, and provides a general framework of performance psychology that is informative for sport psychology. It discusses the recognition heuristic, the take-the-best heuristic, and the hot-hand heuristic. The chapter describes, explains, and predicts behavior according to the particles that form the building blocks of heuristics, and provides examples of how these building blocks are integrated into heuristics. The chapter examines the impact of findings in performance psychology on sport psychology and vice-versa.