Exercise Psychology

Sport Exercise Psychology

Previous research has shown that the effects of basic psychological needs on the flow experience in sports are moderated by implicit motives. However, so far, only leisure and health-oriented sports have been analyzed. In a pilot study and a main study (N = 29, 93), we tested whether the implicit achievement and affiliation motives interact with the need for competence and the need for social r...

Biofeedback in Exercise Psychology

Sport Exercise Psychology

Stefan Koehn is now with the Department of Health Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Alan J. Pearce is with the Cognitive and Exercise Neuroscience Unit, Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Tony Morris is with the College of Sport and Exercise Science, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, ...

Sport Exercise Psychology

Priming has recently emerged in the literature as offering advantages in the preparation for skilled performance. Accordingly, the current study tested the efficacy of imagery against a priming paradigm as a means of enhancing motor performance: in essence, contrasting a preparation technique primarily under the conscious control of the performer to an unconscious technique promoting automatici...

Sport Exercise Psychology

Koen Put is with the Department of Kinesiology, Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium. Marcus V.C. Baldo is with the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil. André M. Cravo is with the Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, Federal University of ABC, Br...