The second edition of Pure Sport: Practical sport psychology sets out, in everyday language, the lessons you can take from contemporary sport psychology – helping you recognise what works and what doesn’t when it comes to improving performance.
 

John Kremer was a Reader in Psychology at Queen’s University until 2011 and continues to run his own consultancy business, Kremer Consultancy Services Ltd, specialising in employment issues.

John completed his PhD at Loughborough University in 1980 and moved to Northern Ireland that same year. From the 1980s onwards he has had the privilege of working with well over 50 sports, and including athletes that range in ability from world champions to those taking their first sporting steps, along with both amateur and professional teams in sports as diverse as soccer and archery.

Alongside this practical side to his work, John has continued to lecture and publish widely in the field. In 2004 he was awarded the annual Teaching Award by Queen’s University, as a tribute to his excellence in small group teaching. His many publications include several books devoted to the psychology of sport, a number of which he has co-authored with Aidan Moran. His publications include Sport Psychology: Contemporary Themes (Palgrave, 2006; 2011), Key Concepts in Sport Psychology, (Sage, 2011), Psychology in Sport (Taylor & Francis, 1994) and Young People’s Involvement in Sport (Routledge, 1997). He has also co-edited special sport psychology issues of the Irish Journal of Psychology and The Psychologist and in 2012 was asked to give keynote addresses at both the British Psychological Society and Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conferences in London and Cork. Most recently John has completed a series of You Tube clips on how to prepare mentally for running a marathon which can be viewed here.

During his time at Queen’s, John supervised over 30 postgraduate research students across a range of sport and exercise psychology topics, and continues to be actively involved in research. In 2000 he was awarded the British Psychological Society’s annual prize for challenging inequality across the UK.

Aidan Moran is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Psychology Research Laboratory in University College Dublin (UCD). He obtained his BA (1977) and MA degrees (1978) in Psychology from UCD and his PhD degree from National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG, 1984). His doctoral thesis on cognitive psychology was examined by the eminent experimental psychologist, Prof Donald Broadbent FRS.

Aidan’s research interests include motor imagery/mental practice and concentration. Using experimental tasks, psychometric measures and eye-tracking technology, his research team investigates the imagery and attentional processes that underlie expertise in highly skilled performers such as athletes and surgeons. His latest research collaboration with colleagues in Imperial College, London, explores mental practice as a technique for improving laparoscopic surgical performance.

A Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland, Aidan has written 15 books, a number of which have been co-authored with John Kremer. He has also published many papers in high-impact, international journals in psychology, neuroscience, medicine and sport science and is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. His book publications for Routledge include textbooks (Sport and Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction (2nd ed), monographs (The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers: A Cognitive Analysis) and reference books (Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology). Aidan has won many awards for his research (Fulbright Award, 1994; Stevens’ Award, University of Florida, 2000) and teaching (UCD’s President’s Teaching Award in 1997) and in 2004, received the Psychological Society of Ireland's “Special Merit Award” for his studies in cognitive and sport psychology. He has delivered keynote lectures at international psychology conferences in the UK, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and the USA.

Applying his research to enhance skilled performance, Aidan has advised many of Ireland’s leading professional athletes (including golfer Pádraig Harrington) and teams (the Irish rugby team) and is a former psychologist to the Irish Olympic Squad. He has extensive experience of radio and television broadcasting in Psychology and is a regular speaker at corporate events in Ireland and abroad.

CONTENTS
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TARGET ARTICLE
Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication
Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

COMMENTARIES
Toward Open Behavioral Science
Karen E. Adolph et al.

Does Open Scientific Communication Increase the Quality of Knowledge?
Jens B. Asendorpf

A Librarian's Defense of the Practicable Over the Perfect in Scholarly Communication
Jill Cirasella

Missteps on the Road to Scientific Utopia
Joel Cooper

Improving Science by Improving Scientific Communication: The View From the APA Publications and Communications Board
Jennifer Crocker

What Do We Really Want?
David Dunning

Seeking the Road to Utopia
Paul Fendley

Will We March to Utopia, or Be Dragged There? Past Failures and Future Hopes for Publishing Our Science
Roger Giner-Sorolla

Scientific Communication Is Down at the Moment, Please Check Again Later
John P. A. Ioannidis

Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds in a Data-Rich Utopia
Ravi Iyer & Jesse Graham

A Dinosaur Comments on the Coming Apocalypse: Does Anybody Else See That Asteroid?
Laura A. King

Scientific Utopia or Scientific Dystopia?
Scott O. Lilienfeld

Modernizing Science
Benjamin W. Mooneyham et al.

Cheaper and Better: Why Scientific Advancement Demands the Move to Open Access Publishing
Don A. Moore & Elizabeth R. Tenney

Scientific Utopia: That Which Cannot Exist?
Alison Mudditt & Michael A. Hogg

Let's Publish Fewer Papers
Leif D. Nelson et al.

Let's Try and Fix the Current Publishing System Before Making Dramatic Changes
Richard E. Petty

The Future of Scientific Publication in Psychology: Utopias and Dystopias
Harry T. Reis

How Should We Manage Peer Review and Why?
Rebecca Saxe

Scientific Utopia … or Too Much Information?
Barbara A. Spellman

Beginning at Nosek and Bar-Anan's End: Let's Put Open Evaluation First
Tal Yarkoni

REPLY
Scientific Communication Is Changing and Scientists Should Lead the Way
Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

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The typical and atypical mind across the lifespan
Education, ethics, and professional practice dilemmas in psychology
The nature and diversity of social cohesion and attachment.

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