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Obituary of Prof. Bernd Strauß (1959-2026)

It is with great sadness that we inform of the loss of our colleague Prof. Dr. Bernd Strauß, who passed away on September 27, 2026. With his passing, sport psychology has lost a dedicated professional, a generous educator and a distinguished researcher. Prof. Strauß played a major role in the recent history of sport psychology […]

Daniel Kahneman

Nobel prize winner, pioneering economic psychologist Daniel Kahneman passed away on March 27, 2024 at the age of 90. Daniel Kahneman was born in 1934 during his mother’s visit in Tel Aviv as a son of a Lithuanian Jewish family residing in Paris. He survived the holocaust in France and later immigrated to Israel. Daniel […]

Turvey’s legacy will keep moving forward

Michael T. Turvey passed away on August 12, 2023 Michael Thomas Turvey lines among the world’s most skillful scientists in the field of psychology. He is broadly known for his pioneering work in the ecological approach to action-perception-cognition (at the scale of organisms and their environments). One of the major contemporary perspectives on movement and […]

Albert Bandura, a referential figure in psychology, dies at 95

The leading reference in psychology, Albert Bandura, passed away last Monday at his home in Stanford, California at the age of 95. While his research was on general psychology, his works on social cognitive theory of human functioning and specially, his theory of self efficacy had become paramount on sport and exercise psychology, helping to […]

OBITUARY & TRIBUTE – Professor Nikos Chatzisarantis, BSc., MSc., PhD

Dr Nikos Chatzisarantis sadly passed away in Greece on May 6th, 2020 after a year-long illness with cancer. Nikos was an extraordinary academic and, even within his relatively short – far too short – life, he achieved so much. More of that later. In this obituary and tribute, a number of friends and colleagues recollect […]

Passing of Prof. Aidan Moran

We are sad to report the passing of our good colleague Prof. Aidan Moran from the University College Dublin. Aidan Moran was the director of the Psychology Research Laboratory and Full Professor of Cognitive Psychology. In 2004, he received the Psychological Society of Ireland’s “Special Merit Award” for his research in cognitive and sport psychology. […]