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"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology is an in-depth, up-to-date scholarly reference text for the state of knowledge development in this area. The text includes articles that address human performance in sport, performing arts, surgery, firefighting, law enforcement, military operations, and physical activity participation. In addition, topics include an analysis of the factors that influence optimal performance as well as the adoption and maintenance of physical activity for mental and physical health. The breadth of focused scientific peer-reviewed articles provides academicians, practitioners, advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and researchers in related fields with a reliable source of specialized information"--