Nobel Prize, Psychology and Sport Psychology
Liwei Zhang · 2005
Reviewed were those studies of recipients and nominees of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, who have made substantial contributions to the development of psychology. These contributions are mainly in the area of physiological foundations of mental process. Introduced was the research work by Daniel Kaneman, the first psychologist who won the Nobel Prize (the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science). His area has been related to judge and decision under uncertainty and cognitive framing effect in decision-making process and system and the interaction between intuition system and reasoning system. It was pointed out that the inspirations we can get from Nobel Prize for the development of psychology and sport psychology are: 1) advance proper questions and make ingenious designs;2) integrate theory and experiment and 3) follow a good direction and make sustained efforts.