Performance Psychology

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. Dr. Babett H. Lobinger is a senior lecturer at the institute of psychology at the German Sport University Cologne. She obtained her MSc in Psychology and Movement Science and her PhD in Sport Psychology. She is a trained psychologist with interest in paradoxical performance and talent development in high performance sports. Dr. Lobinger brings 15 years of experience to the project and co-edited the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.Dr. Alexandra Pizzera is a sport scientist at the German Sport University Cologne. Her research interests span judgement and decision-making, visual and auditory perception, and embodied cognition of sports officials. Dr. Pizzera brings 15 years of experience to the project and co-edited to the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.Dr. Sylvain Laborde is a senior lecturer at the German Sport University Cologne. He obtained his MSc in Psychology and Sport Science and PhDs in Psychology and Sport Science. His research focuses on heart rate variability (HRV) as a self-regulation indicator and emotional intelligence as an adaptive personality individual difference. Dr. Pizzera brings 17 years of experience to the project and co-edited to the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.Dr. Florian Loffing is a senior lecturer at the German Sport University Cologne. He obtained his PhD in Sports Psychology and is a sports scientist with interest in laterality and perceptual-cognitive expertise. Dr. Loffing utilizes mixed methodological approaches including lab-based experiments, interviews, and archival studies to understand sports performance psychology. He brings 16 years of experience to the project.

• Section A: Introduction into Performance Psychology1. What is Performance Psychology?2. How can research explain performance?3. How can research assess performance?4. How to connect research and application in sports?Section B: Sport Psychology in High Performance5. Paradoxical performance6. Talent identification and development7. Parents supporting careers8. Female performanceSection C: Psychophysiology of Performance9. Performance psychophysiology10. Performing under pressure/stress11. Perception and regulation of arousal12. Influence of individual differences in performanceSection D: Sensorimotor expertise in performance13. Laterality and sensorimotor expertise14. A developmental perspective on motor-cognitive expertise in sports15. Decision-making in sport experts16. Multisensory integration in sensorimotor expertiseSection E: Movement Dynamics in Performance17. From action to perceptual judging18. Aesthetics judgement19. Auditory action perception20. Visual perception in expert action