Sport and exercise psychology research studies – which inform the strategies athletes use to reach peak performance – have predominantly used male participants.
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Over half of people who intend to make healthy lifestyle changes fail to do so. Understanding the automatic tendencies that prevent people from enacting a new health habit can help them stick to it.
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Exercise practitioners are taught to help us set goals to get active. But the way we set goals may be unhelpful, or worse, make it even harder for us to exercise.
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Professor of Sport & Exercise Psychology, Brunel University of London
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brunel University of London
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Senior Researcher, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
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Professor, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor & Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health in Elite Sports, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistician, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Health Psychology, University of Victoria