Posts Tagged ‘psychology’

Soft science

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

While cycling to school, John found a brand new “sport psychology” textbook in the middle of the road. There was no hint as to who owned it or how it got into the street, so he brought it home. Before he shipped it off to the person who bought it from him on Amazon (not in College Station—he checked), I flipped it open and found a passage full of marvelously ridiculous acronyms.

Here are a few choice snippets from the thousand-word section titled “Basking in Reflected Glory.” I swear I’m not making this up.

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