Hogue publishes in Frontiers in Psychology, Sport Psychology special issue

Candace Hogue, PhD, assistant professor in the School of kinesiology and director of the Sport, Exercise & Performance Psychology Lab (SEPP), and her collaborators from the Jayhawk Athletic Performance Lab published their cross-disciplinary research article "Caring, Task-Involving Climate Leads to Greater Improvements in Free-Throw Shooting Biomechanics and Motivational Responses." This work was published in the Sport Psychology special issue of Frontiers in Psychology, "The Motivational Climate in Sports and Physical Education." Hogue's research revealed that the shooting mechanics of athletes immersed in a caring, task-involving (mastery-focused) climate during a free-throw shooting clinic more closely resembled those of proficient shooters compared to athletes placed in a hyper-competitive (ego-involving) climate during the free-throw clinic. There were no baseline differences between groups in shooting mechanics. Athletes in the caring, task-involving climate also reported greater positive affect, effort, and excitement to continue practicing their free-throw skills. This research was funded by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance.