From: NPR
Olympic Victory And Defeat, Frame By Frame
August 17, 2016
NPR:
It may sound trite, but the Olympic Games truly are a chance to witness what unites us all as human beings: Our joy in triumph and our anguish in defeat.
David Matsumoto believes this truism, but on an entirely different level.
Matsumoto is a professor of psychology at San Francisco State University and a former Olympic judo coach. He has analyzed the behavior of Olympic athletes. He spoke recently with Shankar Vedantam about what his research reveals.
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