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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicSport psychology

Topic: sport psychology

When Pullela Gopichand asked PV Sindhu to scream during her matches. It’s sport psychology

In ‘The Champion Within’, Dr Samir Parikh and Divya Jain use sport psychology to show what lies behind the mental strength of some of the world’s greatest athletes.

Elite athletes are generally smarter than us. There’s one reason

Babe Ruth was far from an example of athletic prowess. But scored higher than the average population in every psychological test he did.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.