Sport and Exercise Psychology Research

Dr. Markus Raab is Head of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University and Head of the Performance Psychology Department. Additionally, he is Research Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. He obtained his MSc in Sport Science and PhDs in Movement Science and Cognitive Psychology. The main focus of the research programme in performance psychology is on judgement and decision making in sports, health and peak performance. He favours a simple heuristic approach and an embodied cognition approach to understanding the interaction of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviour from a psychological perspective. Dr. Raab brings more than two decades of experience to the project and co-edited the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.

• Chapter 1: European Perspective on Sport PsychologySection I: Prerequisites of Sport and Exercise PsychologyChapter 2: Importance of Instructions in Sport and Exercise PsychologyChapter 3: Benefits of Physical Activity and Fitness for Lifelong Cognitive and Motor Development—Brain and BehaviorChapter 4: Visual Perception and Motor Action: Issues in Current Quiet-Eye ResearchChapter 5: Learning a Motor Action “From Within”: Insights Into Perceptual-Cognitive Changes With Mental and Physical PracticeChapter 6: Perspectives on Team Cognition and Team SportsSection II: Individual Differences in Sport and Exercise PsychologyChapter 7: Antecedents of Need Supportive and Controlling Interpersonal Styles From a Self-Determination Theory Perspective: A Review and Implications for Sport Psychology ResearchChapter 8: Why Self-Talk Is Effective? Perspectives on Self-Talk Mechanisms in SportChapter 9: Personality-Trait-Like Individual Differences: Much More Than Noise in the Background for Sport and Exercise PsychologyChapter 10: Promoting Acculturation Through Sport: An Ethnic-Cultural Identity ApproachSection III: Perspectives From Sport PsychologyChapter 11: Doing Sport Psychology? Critical Reflections of a Scientist-PractitionerChapter 12: Theoretical Developments in Career Transition Research: Contributions of European Sport PsychologyChapter 13: Holistic Perspective on the Development of Elite AthletesChapter 14: Serial Winning Coaches: People, Vision, and EnvironmentChapter 15: Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport: Implications for Sport PsychologistsChapter 16: Theory-Based Team Diagnostics and InterventionsSection IV: Perspectives From Exercise PsychologyChapter 17: Empowering and Disempowering Coaching Climates: Conceptualization, Measurement Considerations, and Intervention ImplicationsChapter 18: Escape From Cognitivism: Exercise as Hedonic ExperienceChapter 19: Coach Behaviors and Goal Motives as Predictors of Attainment and Well-Being in SportChapter 20: Health Assets and Active Lifestyles During Preadolescence and Adolescence: Highlights From the HBSC/WHO Health Survey and Implications for Health PromotionChapter 21: Emotional Experiences and Interpersonal Relations in Physical Activity as Health Prevention and Treatment—A Psychodynamic Group Approach