Professor Tim Woodman

Professor in Sport & Exercise

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Tim Woodman is a leading Professor of Performance Psychology. He is world-renowned for his work on personality, stress, and anxiety. He has also developed a theory of risk-taking that places risk at the centre of human endeavour. In other words, according to Prof Woodman, risk is essential for human development, including in elite sport. He is currently accepting PhD students that have an interest in developing these topics.

  1. Published

    Why do people engage in high-risk sports? Beyond sensation seeking

    Woodman, T. & Le Scanff, C., 1 Sept 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  2. Published

    A systematic review of sport-based life skills programs for young people: The quality of design and evaluation methods

    Williams, C., Neil, R., Cropley, B., Woodman, T. & Roberts, R., 4 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. 34, 2, p. 409-435 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Agentic emotion regulation in high-risk sport: An in-depth analysis across climbing disciplines

    Willegers, M., Woodman, T. & Tilley, F., Apr 2023, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 204, 112061.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Factors influencing physical risk taking in rock climbing

    Taylor, M. K., Gould, D. R., Hardy, L., Woodman, T. & LaCaille, R., 1 Jan 2006, In: Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments. 9, p. 15-26

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Body self-discrepancies and social physique anxiety: the role of sex and the feared self

    Steer, R. & Woodman, T., 1 Jan 2008.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  6. Published

    High-level athletes’ motivation for sport and susceptibility to doping: The mediating role of eating behaviours

    Scoffier-Mériaux, S., d’Arripe-Longueville, F., Woodman, T., Lentillon-Kaestner, V. & Corrion, K., 4 Mar 2021, In: European Journal of Sport Science. 21, 3, p. 412-420 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Psychosocial consequences of disordered eating attitudes in elite female figure skaters

    Scoffier, S., Woodman, T. & d'Arripe-Longueville, F., 16 May 2011, In: European Eating Disorders Review. 19, 3, p. 280-287

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Watch out for the hazard! Blurring peripheral vision facilitates hazard perception in driving

    Ryu, D., Cooke, A., Bellomo, E. & Woodman, T., Oct 2020, In: Accident Analysis and Prevention. 146, 105755.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Pass Me the ball: Narcissism in performance settings

    Roberts, R., Woodman, T. & Sedikides, C., 25 Jan 2017, In: International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    When the Going Gets Tough, Who Gets Going? An Examination of the Relationship Between Narcissism, Effort, and Performance

    Roberts, R., Cooke, A., Woodman, T., Hupfeld, H., Barwood, C. & Manley, H., Feb 2019, In: Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology. 8, 1, p. 93-105

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Interactive effects of different visual imagery perspectives and narcissism on motor performance.

    Roberts, R. J., Roberts, R., Callow, N., Hardy, L. J., Woodman, T. & Thomas, L., 1 Aug 2010, In: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 32, 4, p. 499-517

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Psychological Skills Do Not Always Help Performance: The Moderating Role of Narcissism

    Roberts, R. J., Woodman, T., Hardy, L. J., Davis, L. & Wallace, H. M., 2 Oct 2012, In: Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. 25, 3, p. 316-325

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Perfectionism and the 'Yips': An Initial Investigation

    Roberts, R. J., Rotherham, M., Maynard, I., Thomas, O. & Woodman, T., 1 Mar 2013, In: Sport Psychologist. 27, 1, p. 53-61

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Not all players are equally motivated: The role of narcissism.

    Roberts, R. J., Woodman, T., Lofthouse, S. & Williams, L., 15 Dec 2014, In: European Journal of Sport Science. 15, 6, p. 536-542

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Personality and performance: Beyone the Big 5

    Roberts, R. J., Woodman, T., Schinke, R. J. (ed.), McGannon, K. R. (ed.) & Smith, B. (ed.), 19 Nov 2014, International handbook of sport psychology. 2016 ed. Routledge

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  16. Published

    Authors’ reply to Hill: Comment on ‘‘The Great British Medallists project: A review of current knowledge on the development of the World’s best sporting talent’’

    Rees, T., Hardy, L. & Woodman, T., Jan 2018, In: Sports Medicine. 48, 1, p. 239-240 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterpeer-review

  17. Published

    The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent

    Rees, T., Hardy, L., Gullich, A., Abernethy, B., Cote, J., Woodman, T., Montgomery, H., Laing, S. & Warr, C., 1 Aug 2016, In: Sports Medicine. 46, 8, p. 1041-1058

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    The role of repression in the incidence of ironic effects of performance

    Pyle, K. & Woodman, T., 1 Sept 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  19. Published

    The role of repression in the incidence of ironic effects of performance

    Pyle, K. & Woodman, T., 1 Jan 2004, In: Journal of Sports Sciences. 23, p. 163-164

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    The impact of menstrual-cycle phase on basal and exercise-induced hormones, mood, anxiety and exercise performance in physically-active women

    Paludo, A-C., Cook, C., Owen, J., Woodman, T., Irwin, J. & Crewther, B., Mar 2021, In: Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. 61, 3, p. 461-467

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Psycho-physiological responses of mountain bike riders during anaerobic and aerobic testing

    Paludo, A-C., Cook, C., Owen, J., Woodman, T., Owen, S. & Crewther, B., Jun 2017, In: Journal of Science and Cycling. 6, 1, p. 18-25

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Pre-competitive anxiety and autonomic responses in professional U-20 futsal players: Effect of the competition phase and game location

    Paludo, A-C., Woodman, T., Owen, J., Rabelo, F. N., Bernacikovà, M. & Simões, A. C., 1 Oct 2022, In: Physiology and Behavior. 254, 113903.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    The Leader Ship was destined to sink: An examination of dominance and prestige on the rise and fall of the narcissistic leader

    Ong, C. W., Roberts, R., Woodman, T. & Arthur, C., Dec 2022, In: Group Dynamics: Theory, research and practice. 26, 4, p. 356-364

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    The Leader Ship is Sinking: A Temporal Investigation of Narcissistic Leadership

    Ong, C. W., Roberts, R., Arthur, C., Woodman, T. & Akehurst, S., Apr 2016, In: Journal of Personality. 84, 2, p. 237-247

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Performance anxiety, arousal, and coping in sport

    Neil, R. & Woodman, T., Mar 2018, Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology . Horn, T. & Smith, A. (eds.). 4 ed. Human Kinetics, Chapter 12

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  26. Published

    I’ll get there because I’m great, or am I? Narcissistic Vulnerability Moderates the Narcissistic Grandiosity – Goal Persistence Relationship

    Manley, H., Roberts, R., Beattie, S. & Woodman, T., Jan 2018, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 120, 1, p. 65-74

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Risk-taking: beyond sensations seeking

    Le Scanff, C. & Woodman, T., 1 Aug 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  28. Published

    Psychological difficulties and accidents in mountaineers

    Le Scanff, C., Castanier, C. & Woodman, T., 1 Sept 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  29. E-pub ahead of print

    Thirty years of longitudinal talent development research: A systematic review and meta-aggregation

    Lawrence, G., Dunn, E., Gottwald, V., Oliver, S., Roberts, R., Hardy, J. & Woodman, T., 22 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Practice with anxiety improves performance, but only when anxious: Evidence for the specificity of practice hypothesis

    Lawrence, G., Beattie, S., Woodman, T., Khan, M. A., Hardy, L., Gottwald, V. M. & Cassell, V. E., 20 Jun 2012, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology. s1 ed. Vol. 34. p. S101

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  31. Published

    Practice with anxiety improves performance, but only when anxious: evidence for the specificity of practice hypothesis

    Lawrence, G. P., Cassell, V. E., Beattie, S. J., Woodman, T., Khan, M. A., Hardy, L. J. & Gottwald, V. M., 27 Oct 2013, In: Psychological Research. 78, 5

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Initial steps in the validation of the athlete development formulation survey

    Langham-Walsh, E., Anderson, D., Dunn, E., Gottwald, V., Hardy, J., Hardy, L., Lawrence, G., Lowery, M., Oliver, S., Roberts, R. & Woodman, T., 2019, Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport (SCAPPS refereed abstracts repository). p. 115

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  33. Published

    The darker side of personality: Narcissism predicts moral disengagement and antisocial behavior in sport

    Jones, B., Woodman, T., Barlow, M. & Roberts, R., 30 Jun 2017, In: Sport Psychologist. 31, 2, p. 109-116

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Risk-taking

    Hardy, W. & Woodman, T., 7 Feb 2019, Dictionary of Sport Psychology. Hackfort, D., Schinke, R. & Bernd, S. (eds.). Elsevier, p. 251-252

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionarypeer-review

  35. Published

    Sensation Seeking

    Hardy, W. & Woodman, T., 7 Feb 2019, Dictionary of Sport Psychology. Hackfort, D., Schinke, R. & Bernd, S. (eds.). Elsevier, p. 268

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEntry for encyclopedia/dictionarypeer-review

  36. Published

    Great British medallists: Response to the commentaries

    Hardy, L., Barlow, M., Evans, L., Rees, T., Woodman, T. & Warr, C., 16 Jun 2017, In: Progress in Brain Research. 232, p. 207-216

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  37. Published

    Great British medallists: Psychosocial biographies of Super-Elite and Elite athletes from Olympic sports

    Hardy, L., Barlow, M., Evans, L., Rees, T., Woodman, T. & Warr, C., 26 Jun 2017, Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning. Wilson, M., Walsh, V. & Parkin, B. (eds.). Academic Press, (Progress in Brain Research).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  38. Published

    Mountaineering and skydiving: different motives from an agentic emotion regulation perspective

    Hardy, L. J., Barlow, M. D. & Woodman, T., 12 Jul 2011.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  39. Published

    Precompetition self-confidence: The role of the self

    Hardy, L. J., Woodman, T. & Beattie, S. J., 1 Sept 2004, In: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 26, 3, p. 427-441

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  40. Published

    Is self-confidence a bias factor in higher-order catastrophe models? An exploratory analysis.

    Hardy, L. J., Woodman, T. & Carrington, S., 1 Sept 2004, In: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 26, 3, p. 359-368

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Anxiety induced performance catastrophes: investigating effort required as an asymmetry factor.

    Hardy, L., Beattie, S. J. & Woodman, T., 1 Feb 2007, In: British Journal of Psychology. 98, 1, p. 15-31

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  42. Published

    Is self-confidence a bias factor in higher-order catastrophe models: an exploratory analysis

    Hardy, L. & Woodman, T., 1 Nov 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  43. Published

    Developmental Biographies of Olympic Super-Elite and Elite Athletes: A Multidisciplinary Pattern Recognition Analysis

    Güllich, A., Hardy, L., Kuncheva, L., Woodman, T., Laing, S., Barlow, M., Lynne, E., Tim, R., Abernethy, B., Côté, J., Chelsea, W. & Wraith, E., Mar 2019, In: Journal of Expertise. 2, 1, p. 23-46 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  44. Published

    Ironic and Reinvestment Effects in Baseball Pitching: How Information about an Opponent Can Influence Performance under Pressure

    Gray, R., Orn, A. & Woodman, T., 28 Feb 2017, In: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 39, 1, p. 3-12

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  45. Published

    Anxiety and Ironic Errors of Performance: Task Instruction Matters

    Gorgulu, R., Cooke, A. & Woodman, T., Apr 2019, In: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 41, 2, p. 82-95 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  46. Published

    The benefits of need satisfaction depend on their relative importance for people with a unidimensional identity: an idiographic analysis

    Glendinning, F., Woodman, T., Hardy, L. & Ong, C. W., Dec 2021, In: Motivation and Emotion. 45, 6, p. 728-746

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  47. Published

    The Impact of Living in a Bio-Secure Bubble on Mental Health: An Examination in Elite Cricket

    Ely, G., Woodman, T., Roberts, R., Jones, E., Wedatilake, T., Sanders, P. & Peirce, N., 1 Sept 2023, In: Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 68, 102447.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  48. Published

    Where’s the emotion? How sport psychology can inform research on emotion in Human Factors

    Eccles, D. W., Ward, P., Woodman, T., Janelle, C. M., Le Scanff, C., Ehrlinger, J., Castanier, C. & Coombes, S. A., 19 Apr 2011, In: Human Factors. 53, 2, p. 180-202

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  49. Published

    Shared interests in common problems: how the field of sport psychology might inform the future of human factors and ergonomics

    Eccles, D., Ward, P., Woodman, T., Janelle, C. & Le Scanff, C., 1 Jan 2008.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  50. Published

    Competition-specific preparation and expert performance

    Eccles, D., Ward, P. & Woodman, T., 1 Jan 2009, In: Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 10, 1, p. 96-107

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review