"Performance Psychology: Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion presents a scientific guide to performance psychology research, looking at the behavior of individuals and groups toward achieving specific goals. The book identifies factors that add toor take away from the ability to achieve those goals in music, performance arts, and sport. Empirical studies reviewed in this book employ a variety of methods, including experimental, diagnostic, and intervention approaches"- This book integrates findings from across domains in performance psychology to focus on core research on what influences peak and non-peak performance. The book explores basic and applied research identifying cognition-action interactions, perception-cognition interactions, emotion-cognition interactions, and perception-action interactions. The book explores performance in sports, music, and the arts both for individuals and teams/groups, looking at the influence of cognition, perception, personality, motivation and drive, attention, stress, coaching, and age. This comprehensive work includes contributions from the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia.