Nikos Ntoumanis

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 👇

👍 @anne-marieelbe.bsky.social @nikosntoumanis.bsky.social

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#doping #antidoping

NEW paper: Effectiveness of booster strategies to promote physical activity maintenance: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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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-...

The text on the image reads, "PCC-Funded Research Spotlight, Grant Title: A meta-analysis of psychosocial predictors of doping intentions and use, Dr. Nikos Ntoumanis, University of Southern Denmark." There is a photo of Nikos on the right above the text logo for the Partnership for Clean Competition.

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...

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...

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.
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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...

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/

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...

Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity-Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts
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We’ll review submissions and contact selected candidates to co-develop a competitive proposal between December 2025 and February 2026.
🔗 More information about the GAIA Fellowship:
www.thegaiaproject.eu/application

📄 What to send us:
-A 1-page project proposal (aligned with GAIA’s guidelines and our research focus)
-A short document explaining how you meet all the eligibility criteria.
-A 2-page CV

If you:
✅ Meet the GAIA eligibility criteria and are willing to relocate to SDU
✅ Have a competitive CV with relevant publications

…then please reach out to me or Søren T. Skou by mid-November (the earlier the better).

My colleague Prof. Søren Skou and I are interested in candidates who want to undertake a project related to behavioural science and climate change, particularly looking at the interface between human and planetary health.

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.

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

As many of us in academia already know and feel, flexible working patterns can be a double edge sword www.timeshighereducation.com/news/benefit...

"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.

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...

Oliver also explains why such research deserves public funding and gives striking examples of projects whose long-term impact far exceeded initial expectations—a segment I think is particularly useful for students taking Research Methods classes.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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.

Welcome (back) to Denmark. It would be great to connect at some point if you have the time.

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.
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This paper offers a set of recommendations for establishing strong experimental methods for both original research and replications in psychology

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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...

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

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).

We grouped these into 13 general factors & 3 big themes:
1️⃣ Socio-contextual factors
2️⃣ Motivators’ personal factors
3️⃣ Motivators’ perceptions of those they’re motivating

We systematically reviewed & meta-analysed 122 studies across education, parenting, sport, healthcare, and more.

We identified 59 specific factors influencing whether someone is controlling or supportive.