Nikos Ntoumanis
@nikosntoumanis.bsky.social
Professor of Motivation Science; Danish Centre for Motivation & Behaviour Science (DRIVEN) at IOB, SDU; #BehaviouralScience https://www.sdu.dk/en/forskning/driven. Publications:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-CVsmqYAAAAJ&hl=en
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-CVsmqYAAAAJ&hl=en
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At DRIVEN we are passionate about behavioural science. Take a look at our website to find out more about us, our research, and consultancy services:
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
If you want to join us, we will be advertising for new post-docs and research assistants in the summer.
www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...
If you want to join us, we will be advertising for new post-docs and research assistants in the summer.
NEW PAPER in Nature Human Behaviour
I am thrilled to share our new meta-analysis on when and how people adjust their goals—and what follows. We also propose a conceptual model regarding the organisation of antecedent and outcome variables of goal adjustment processes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am thrilled to share our new meta-analysis on when and how people adjust their goals—and what follows. We also propose a conceptual model regarding the organisation of antecedent and outcome variables of goal adjustment processes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW PAPER in Nature Human Behaviour
I am thrilled to share our new meta-analysis on when and how people adjust their goals—and what follows. We also propose a conceptual model regarding the organisation of antecedent and outcome variables of goal adjustment processes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am thrilled to share our new meta-analysis on when and how people adjust their goals—and what follows. We also propose a conceptual model regarding the organisation of antecedent and outcome variables of goal adjustment processes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Nikos Ntoumanis
The event is scheduled to take place in Aarhus in January 2026. Please, follow the link below for more info and registration 👇
👍 @anne-marieelbe.bsky.social @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social
👉 event.au.dk/events/measu...
#doping #antidoping
👍 @anne-marieelbe.bsky.social @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social
👉 event.au.dk/events/measu...
#doping #antidoping
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The event is scheduled to take place in Aarhus in January 2026. Please, follow the link below for more info and registration 👇
👍 @anne-marieelbe.bsky.social @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social
👉 event.au.dk/events/measu...
#doping #antidoping
👍 @anne-marieelbe.bsky.social @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social
👉 event.au.dk/events/measu...
#doping #antidoping
NEW paper: Effectiveness of booster strategies to promote physical activity maintenance: a systematic review and meta-analysis
ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW paper: Effectiveness of booster strategies to promote physical activity maintenance: a systematic review and meta-analysis
ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
NEW paper: This is one of the first applications of the Behaviour Change Technique Ontology to inform the development of a fidelity checklist.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
NEW paper: This is one of the first applications of the Behaviour Change Technique Ontology to inform the development of a fidelity checklist.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you are interested in intensive longitudinal studies, this special issue covers a range of topics; sample size planning and predicting attrition, optimal sampling designs, insights from participants’ experiences, assessment of data quality, psychometrics, etc. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you are interested in intensive longitudinal studies, this special issue covers a range of topics; sample size planning and predicting attrition, optimal sampling designs, insights from participants’ experiences, assessment of data quality, psychometrics, etc. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Reposted by Nikos Ntoumanis
Through his 2021 PCC Research Grant, Prof. Nikos Ntoumanis conducted a review and meta-analysis of 200+ studies of psychosocial predictors and correlates of doping intention, use, and inadvertent doping in sport and exercise. 🚫💊 🧪
The results were published last year: bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp...
The results were published last year: bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp...
October 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Through his 2021 PCC Research Grant, Prof. Nikos Ntoumanis conducted a review and meta-analysis of 200+ studies of psychosocial predictors and correlates of doping intention, use, and inadvertent doping in sport and exercise. 🚫💊 🧪
The results were published last year: bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp...
The results were published last year: bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsp...
How to design your academic website; what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour
An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, inc...
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
How to design your academic website; what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A very interesting bibliometric analysis of 25 years of self-determination theory research. I am also very pleased to see my contribution to the dissemination of this theory in this analysis.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A very interesting bibliometric analysis of 25 years of self-determination theory research. I am also very pleased to see my contribution to the dissemination of this theory in this analysis.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
ACSM Expert Consensus Statement: Considerations and Recommendations for Prescribing Exercise and Designing Physical Activity Programs for People with Disabilities
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41085253/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41085253/
ACSM Expert Consensus Statement: Considerations and Recommendations for Prescribing Exercise and Designing Physical Activity Programs for People with Disabilities - PubMed
Participating in physical activity and meeting physical activity guidelines are far more challenging for persons with disabilities than for the general population. This American College of Sports Medi...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
ACSM Expert Consensus Statement: Considerations and Recommendations for Prescribing Exercise and Designing Physical Activity Programs for People with Disabilities
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41085253/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41085253/
Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity-Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity‐Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts
Persistent health disparities within the U.S. indicate that members of minoritized groups experience disproportionately worse physical and mental health outcomes than their majority counterparts. One...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity-Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Opportunity for Early Career Researchers!
Are you an early career researcher interested in pursuing an MSCA-type post-doc?
The GAIA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program could be your chance. It follows the same criteria as MSCA, but all fellowships are hosted at my uni and focus on climate science.
Are you an early career researcher interested in pursuing an MSCA-type post-doc?
The GAIA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program could be your chance. It follows the same criteria as MSCA, but all fellowships are hosted at my uni and focus on climate science.
October 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Opportunity for Early Career Researchers!
Are you an early career researcher interested in pursuing an MSCA-type post-doc?
The GAIA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program could be your chance. It follows the same criteria as MSCA, but all fellowships are hosted at my uni and focus on climate science.
Are you an early career researcher interested in pursuing an MSCA-type post-doc?
The GAIA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program could be your chance. It follows the same criteria as MSCA, but all fellowships are hosted at my uni and focus on climate science.
As many of us in academia already know and feel, flexible working patterns can be a double edge sword www.timeshighereducation.com/news/benefit...
Benefits of working in academia ‘can add to workload stress’
Flexibility of hours and drive to do meaningful research among the things workers prize most highly, but could also be driving them to quit
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
As many of us in academia already know and feel, flexible working patterns can be a double edge sword www.timeshighereducation.com/news/benefit...
Reposted by Nikos Ntoumanis
"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do."
ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.
ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.
September 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire them to tell us what to do."
ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.
ERC grantee Jan Lagerwall (quoting Steve Jobs), during this morning's #RIDaysEU discussion of how bottom-up funding, supporting investigator-driven frontier research, helps meet future innovation challenges.
A state-of-the-art review on JITAIs, Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions, just published in the Annual Review of Psychology by Nahum-Shani and Murphy.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions: Where Are We Now and What Is Next? | Annual Reviews
The past decade has seen a surge in developing just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs)—an intervention approach that leverages advancements in digital technologies to address the rapidly changing...
www.annualreviews.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A state-of-the-art review on JITAIs, Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions, just published in the Annual Review of Psychology by Nahum-Shani and Murphy.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I highly recommend a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94...). It highlights several instances of US universities being targeted under false pretenses and makes a compelling case for the value of curiosity-driven research.
Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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September 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I highly recommend a recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94...). It highlights several instances of US universities being targeted under false pretenses and makes a compelling case for the value of curiosity-driven research.
Lifestyle instability: an overlooked cause of population obesity? doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Lifestyle instability: an overlooked cause of population obesity? - International Journal of Obesity
International Journal of Obesity - Lifestyle instability: an overlooked cause of population obesity?
www.nature.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Lifestyle instability: an overlooked cause of population obesity? doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Thrilled to see our paper in the latest issue of Motivation Science. We synthesized data from 77 studies with 40K participants to test the Self-Concordance Model (SCM). Our expanded version of the SCM highlights both the bright side and the dark side of goal striving.
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
August 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thrilled to see our paper in the latest issue of Motivation Science. We synthesized data from 77 studies with 40K participants to test the Self-Concordance Model (SCM). Our expanded version of the SCM highlights both the bright side and the dark side of goal striving.
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
This paper offers a set of recommendations for establishing strong experimental methods for both original research and replications in psychology
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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August 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This paper offers a set of recommendations for establishing strong experimental methods for both original research and replications in psychology
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Our short article and infographic in the BJSM summarises the results of a meta-analysis that examined which exercise strategies boost cognitive function in people with clinical depression;
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
August 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our short article and infographic in the BJSM summarises the results of a meta-analysis that examined which exercise strategies boost cognitive function in people with clinical depression;
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...
DRIVEN members will be attending the European Health Psychology Conference next week (@ehps2025.bsky.social), where we will be presenting some of our work. Details are below. We are looking forward to talk to many people, hear about their work, and exchange ideas.
#EHPS2025
#EHPS2025
August 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
DRIVEN members will be attending the European Health Psychology Conference next week (@ehps2025.bsky.social), where we will be presenting some of our work. Details are below. We are looking forward to talk to many people, hear about their work, and exchange ideas.
#EHPS2025
#EHPS2025
Reposted by Nikos Ntoumanis
Join us for an exciting seminar on physical activity, blending epidemiology, behavioural science, and m-health. Manos Stamatakis, Sam Liu, Nikos Ntoumanis, Jeanette Reffstrup, and yours truly.
Free registration (in-person only).
Free registration (in-person only).
August 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Join us for an exciting seminar on physical activity, blending epidemiology, behavioural science, and m-health. Manos Stamatakis, Sam Liu, Nikos Ntoumanis, Jeanette Reffstrup, and yours truly.
Free registration (in-person only).
Free registration (in-person only).
Why are some teachers, parents, or coaches highly controlling… while others are supportive & inspiring? 🤔
Our new paper in Motivation Science dives into this question — and it’s the first of its kind. 🧵
📄 Full paper : www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our new paper in Motivation Science dives into this question — and it’s the first of its kind. 🧵
📄 Full paper : www.researchgate.net/publication/...
August 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Why are some teachers, parents, or coaches highly controlling… while others are supportive & inspiring? 🤔
Our new paper in Motivation Science dives into this question — and it’s the first of its kind. 🧵
📄 Full paper : www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Our new paper in Motivation Science dives into this question — and it’s the first of its kind. 🧵
📄 Full paper : www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Although it is intuitive to suggest that personalization of psychological treatments should enhance outcomes, this meta-analysis found that personalization does not show clear benefits over non- or less personalized versions of the same/comparable treatment psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
August 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Although it is intuitive to suggest that personalization of psychological treatments should enhance outcomes, this meta-analysis found that personalization does not show clear benefits over non- or less personalized versions of the same/comparable treatment psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
I am pleased to report that we received funding for two new research projects. The first (5 years), led by Marie Dahl and funded by the Danish Heart Foundation, will develop a telerehabilitation app for peripheral artery disease, which causes pain, limits activity, and reduces quality of life.
August 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I am pleased to report that we received funding for two new research projects. The first (5 years), led by Marie Dahl and funded by the Danish Heart Foundation, will develop a telerehabilitation app for peripheral artery disease, which causes pain, limits activity, and reduces quality of life.
In this study of computational modeling of goal persistence, it was shown that participants exhibited a strong bias toward retrospectively persisting with goals with greater accumulated progress at the expense of goals with higher
prospective benefits, journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
prospective benefits, journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Building momentum: A computational account of persistence toward long-term goals
Author summary Goals take time to accomplish and require commitment over extended periods of time. However, over time, some goals may become less attainable than others, necessitating switching betwee...
journals.plos.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
In this study of computational modeling of goal persistence, it was shown that participants exhibited a strong bias toward retrospectively persisting with goals with greater accumulated progress at the expense of goals with higher
prospective benefits, journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
prospective benefits, journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...