PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alfie Kohn, Interpersonal Attraction, Unrequited Love

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

So that we can stay focused on our goals, overcome obstacles and so that we can persevere and succeed: the 2 classes this week will question a simplistic emphasis on generating more and more self control. Today talk about elite women"s gymnastics and the goals they have, the self control they seem to display and whether there could be problems with over control. But the majority of the athletes she writes about are horror stories. Story will focus on the 1996 american gymnastics team (dream team/magnificent 7). For the first time ever the americans actually beat the russians and romanians and won the gold medal in the team competition. Before the olympics it was expected that the girl all the way on the right, shannon miller(18 years old, considered the greatest american gymnasts ever, she won gold medal overall in the previous olympics) would win gold again.