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.