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IdeasBy John A. ListFebruary 10, 2022 9:43 AM ESTJohn A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and the chief economist at Lyft. His new book, The Voltage Effect, is available now.With the Beijing Winter Olympics upon us, Team USA has made clear that it is approaching this yearrsquo Games with a special emphasis on the mental health of its athletes. This perhaps comes as no surprise after American gymnast Simon Biles set off an impassioned conversation about the emotional tribulations of elite athletes when she withdrew from several events of the Tokyo Olympics last year. She liberated others to share their own struggles with performing under intense pressure not to mention televised scrutiny , and this new openness shows no signs of abating. At the end of January, top-ranked Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina announced that he would take a season off from the World Surf League to better tend stanley uk to his own mental health. Role models like Biles and Medina are especially important right now as the COVID-19 pandemic has arguably left more people than ever facing mental-health crises of their own. But few people know that, for scientistsmdash;or Team Science, as we like to call ourselvesmdash;athletes have long served as a microcosm of sorts for studying how all humans confront advers stanley flask ity. In a landmark 1995 study, psychologists Victoria Medvec, S.F. Madey, and Thomas Gilovich noted that bro stanley termosas nze medalists, on the who |
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