Assistant Professor of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University
Brooke Macnamara is an assistant professor of psychology, and she specializes in the psychology of expertise, among others. For her first piece for The Conversation, she is writing about sports and children.
And she has news for all parents who think they can engineer the next Tiger Woods.
Does practice make an Olympian? Not by itself
Jul 28, 2016 02:16 am UTC| Sports
Weve all heard that practice makes perfect, or at least that perfect practice makes perfect. Is this true? Some would unequivocally say yes. In 1993, psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and colleagues proposed the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight