FEATURES
- Emphasis on real-world examples and contemporary athletes in every chapter
- Connects to students on a personal level through Test Yourself
- features that enable students to rate themselves on various issues, attitudes, and behaviors and apply what they’ve learned to their own lives
- Emphasizes research with a thorough review of research methods in the first chapter and Research in Action  boxes throughout that explore thought-provoking topics like the impact of superstition on athletic performance
- Integrates cutting-edge material in Focus on Neuroscience boxes that describe recent studies showing how the brain and hormones may impact athletic performance
- Focuses on youth in Impact on Youth boxes that demonstrate how theories and principles of sport psychology can be used with young athletes
- Addresses diversity issues in the opening chapter and in a unique chapter that considers how stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination regarding gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation influence sport participation and performance
