ESS faculty and alumni present at conference

Eric Hall, associate professor of exercise science; Wally Bixby, assistant professor of exercise science; and Paul Miller, associate professor of exercise science, presented papers entitled “Relationship between preference for and tolerance of intensity of exercise and physical fitness variables” and “Does a mirrored environment influence the affective or perceptual responses to resistance exercise?” at the Annual Meeting of North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) in Denver, Co. Recent graduates Brooks Martin (’06), Chrissy Kostura (’06), Kristin Sanders (’06), and Elizabeth Chmelo (’05) co-authored these presentations.

The mission of NASPSPA is;
The North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity is a multidisciplinary association of scholars from the behavioral sciences and related professions. The Society functions to:

• Develop and advance the scientific study of human behavior when individuals are engaged in sport and physical activity
• Facilitate the dissemination of information
• Improve the quality of research and teaching in the psychology of sport, motor development, and motor learning and control