L. Jon Wertheim, Sam Sommers

Broschiertes Buch

This Is Your Brain on Sports

The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

Beschreibung

The executive editor of Sports Illustrated and a psychologist join forces to examine the behavior of those involved in professional sports, explaining how athletes can successfully put aside personal trauma on game day and why people love to root for a loser. Diagrams.

Autor

L. Jon Wertheim is the executive editor of Sports Illustrated.  A sports journalist with a passion for psychology and economics, he is the author of such New York Times bestsellers as Scorecasting (written with Toby Moskowitz) and You Can’t Make This Up (written with Al Michaels).  A huge sports fan, Sam Sommers is an experimental psychologist at Tufts University who studies the psychology of everyday life. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Situations Matter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780553447422
• ISBN-10: 0553447424
• Artikelnr.: 45102355