Psychology 101 at the World Cup

BOSTON — Every team in the soccer World Cup is looking for an edge. The Germans have the supportive crowd and home field advantage. The Togolese have their chief voodoo fetish priest, Togbui Assiogbo Gnagblondjro, whose bold prediction that his countrymen would beat South Korea and France has not come to pass.

And Spain has a [...]

Spanish Soccer Champs Get a Scientific Kick

Sports psychologists hook up with Real Madrid

An unprecedented agreement among Boston University, MIT, and Real Madrid, Europe’s most successful soccer franchise, will soon provide aspiring sports psychologists the chance to work with some of the world’s finest athletes.

Facilitated by Leonard Zaichkowsky, a professor of counseling psychology at the School of Education and at the School of [...]