• Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research
• Common Cognitive Distortions
• Demotivators: Increasing Success by Lowering Expectations (a funny & sarcastic look at affirmations)
• Choking Article

• Funny video of the "Marshmellow Test"

Exercise & Brain Function

• Neurocognitive Kinesthesiology Lab (bebsite of exercise and cognition researcher Charles Hillman)
• Lifelong Brain and Cognition Lab (bebsite of exercise and cognition researcher Arthur Kramer)
• John Ratey's website (Harvard psychiatrist and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain)
• Stronger, Faster, Smarter by Mary Carmichael
• Fit Body, Fit Mind by Christopher Hertzog, Arthur Kramer, Robert Wilson, & Ulman Lindenberger

Expertise

• A Star is Made (New York Times article)
• Genius: The Modern View (New York Times article)

Goal Setting

• Talking the Talk (Newsweek article on the down side of publically committing to goals)

Happiness

• Why It's So Hard to Be Happy by Michael Wiederman
• Why Are Some People Happier than Others? by Sonja Lyubomirsky

Imagery/Visualization

• Imagined eating

Intrinsic Motivation

• Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan)
• Dan Pink on motivation

Mindset

• Carol Dweck's academic homepage (fixed versus growth mindset)
• The Power (& Peril) of Praising your Kids (Dweck)
  
• Website for Dweck's Mindset book

Peak Performance

• Zone of Excellence (Terry Orlick)

Positive Psychology

• Positive Psychology Center
• Authentic Happiness
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi homepage (flow)
• Sonja Lyubomirsky homepage (happiness researcher)
• Summary of Lyubomirsky's happiness research (sciam.com)

Sport Psychology

• Sport Psychology Interviews ("See Program 2")
• The Psychology of Baseball (book reveiw in APS Observer magazine)
  
• Interview with Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Stress Management

• Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine
• 38 Stress Busters (from the Bensnon-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine)
• Meditation & Attention article (PLoS Biology online journal)

TED (Video) Talks on Themes Related to Our Class

• John Wooden (on success)
• Martin Seligman (on positive psychology)
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (on "flow")
• Daniel Gilbert (on what makes us happy)
• Dan Ariely (on decision making)