Nikos Ntoumanis

This umbrella review evaluated systematic reviews and meta-analyses on school-based interventions targeting students' motivation for PA and sport

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Digital Twins for Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs): Framework for Optimizing and Continually Improving JITAIs In the context of digital health, just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) are nascent precision medicine systems that can extend personalized health care support to everyday life. A challenge in ...

Digital Twins for Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs):
www.jmir.org/2026/1/e72830/

This review demonstrates that family-based interventions can confer significant benefits for children with obesity. Their success hinges on strategically framing parents as active co-agents and integrating motivational strategies. doi.org/10.1111/obr....

This network meta-analysis shows that behavioral therapy and CBT are possibly effective for obesity management in children and adolescents by reducing BMI z-score and improving clinically important quality of life. doi.org/10.1111/obr....

Does artificial intelligence cause artificial confidence? doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

A new scale, measuring "self-nudging" towards physical activity; doi.org/10.1111/aphw...

Design and analysis of individually randomized multiple baseline factorial trials - Behavior Research Methods Assessing the effectiveness of behavioral interventions in rare diseases is challenging due to extremely limited sample sizes and ethical challenges with withholding intervention when limited treatmen...

Design and analysis of individually randomized multiple baseline factorial trials; doi.org/10.3758/s134...

RIP Ed Deci!

<em>British Journal of Educational Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Introduction The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has created new opportunities in educational research, particularly in the efficient analysis of complex social interactions within...

The potential and limitations of large language models for automatic classification of teachers' motivational messages in educational research
doi.org/10.1111/bjep...

A couple of very interesting readings in the latest issue of Behaviour Research Methods on

1. Latent class analysis: gaps between guidelines and research practice; doi.org/10.3758/s134...

2. Missing data in microrandomized trials; doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Open data mandates losing support among researchers Early enthusiasm for compulsory datasets has given way to ‘more qualified views’ on compliance, finds long-running survey

Open data mandates losing support among researchers, despite increased awareness of them, suggests a study of 4,700 researchers across 151 countries, www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-da...

What types of team goal conflict exist, and does goal conflict can sometimes improve performance? These questions are discussed in this meta-analysis; psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

A meta-analytic investigation of the antecedents and outcomes of teachers' autonomy satisfaction; doi.org/10.1111/aphw...

Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Overweight or Obesity Exposed to Physical Activity Interventions: An Umbrella Review Covering Over 1200 Trials Childhood and adolescent obesity poses health risks. Standardizing outcome measurements in physical activity interventions enhances evidence comparability. This study summarizes health outcomes repor...

This is a very interesting new review; doi.org/10.1111/obr....

Rethinking the intention–behaviour gap through a conceptual and methodological lens; This review aims to critically evaluate dominant models of the gap and proposes a dynamic, multidimensional reconceptualization of intention–behaviour processes. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

This paper challenges the revised World Health Organisation guideline that ‘every move counts toward better health' and advocates for greater use of time series data from accelerometers to describe daily patterns of PA bout duration; doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Initiatives for Advancing Planetary Health Through Sustainable Food Systems: An Umbrella Review Introduction Interventions in the food system to improve sustainability are emerging research areas reflecting complex relations between consumption, production, and environmental impact. This umbre...

This umbrella review aimed to explore current research on food systems initiatives and their relationship with human health and sustainability outcomes, doi.org/10.1111/obr....

I am delighted to share the news of our new grant

Τhis review illustrates how social psychology can help create bridges between research and climate actions,
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Hi Cameron, this sounds interesting. The link takes me to your university's library. Do you have a different link? Thanks in advance.

Application of Psychological Theories to Predict and Change Sedentary Behavior Among Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature - International Journal of Behavioral Medicine Background Sedentary behavior (SB) is a critical health indicator independent and interactive with physical inactivity. While the application of psychological theories to understand and intervene in…

Application of Psychological Theories to Predict and Change Sedentary Behavior Among Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature ;

Missing data in microrandomized trials: Challenges and opportunities - Behavior Research Methods The vision of leveraging digital technologies to deliver real-time psychological interventions in everyday settings is realized via just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) – an intervention design...

Missing data in microrandomized trials: Challenges and opportunities; link.springer.com/article/10.3...

This seems bad on like 15 different fronts

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...

The event is scheduled to take place in Aarhus in January 2026. Please, follow the link below for more info and registration 👇

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👉 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....

NEW paper: This is one of the first applications of the Behaviour Change Technique Ontology to inform the development of a fidelity checklist.
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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-...

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...