Faculty: Psychology of Movement and Sport

David E. Conroy
Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Human Development & Family Studies
Research Interests: Achievement motivation – development in early and middle childhood, and consequences across the lifespan. For more details, please see my Kinesiology Faculty Research Form poster
Danielle Symons Downs
Associate Professor of Kinesiology
Research Interests: Psychosocial determinants of exercise (age, gender, race), application of theoretical models to exercise (theory of planned behavior, transtheoretical model), exercise dependence, body image.
Steriani Elavsky
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
Research Interests: Physical activity, psychological function, and aging; physical activity effects on psychological well-being, mental health and quality of life outcomes in middle-aged and older adults; menopause; psychosocial determinants of physical activity behavior.
R. Scott Kretchmar
Professor of Exercise and Sport Science
Research Interests: Philosophy of sport, with emphases on the ethics of fair play, the mind-body problem, and the nature of play. Both empirical and nonempirical methodologies are utilized and past research activities have ranged from basic to applied.
Semyon M. Slobounov
Professor of Kinesiology
Research Interests: Cognitive and affective aspects of motor skill acquisition, psychological causes and consequences of sport injury, psychological effects of exercise, EEG and voluntary movements, computer graphic visualization of movement dynamics.
Dagmar Sternad
Professor of Kinesiology
Research Interests: Control and coordination of rhythmic and discrete movements, dynamical modeling of movements, role of dynamical stability and structure of variability in acquisition and performance of perceptual-motor skills.